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This book contributes to the discussion surrounding both global poverty and the success and future of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Contributors argue that priority be given to active debate about what the MDGs have achieved and what that means for the creation of a post-2015 international framework for action. It begins with an examination of the global context of the goals from a variety of perspectives, and then focuses on the region that continues to be the most impoverished and seems likely to fall short of meeting many of the MDGs - Africa.

The contents are as follows: Introduction: Moving from MDGs to GDGs: development imperatives beyond 2015 / David Hulme and Rorden Wilkinson. Part one, ‘Global context’: Millennium Development Goals: milestones on a long road / Margaret Joan Anstee; Recapturing the narrative of international development / Sakiko Fukuda Parr; From the Millennium to Global Development Goals / Ramesh Thakur; Women and the MDGs: too little, too late, too gendered / Sophie Harman; MDGs meet religion: past, present, and future / Katherine Marshall; [Economic and Social Council] ECOSOC and the MDGs: what can be done? / Thomas G. Weiss. Part two, ‘Focus on Africa’: Lessons to be learned from the challenges to achieving the MDGs in Africa / Craig N. Murphy; Africa and the MDGs: challenges and priorities / David Hulme and Admos Chimhowu; Challenges to the achievement of the MDGs in Africa / Frances Stewart; Global Development Goals and the international HIV response: a chance for renewal / Ilaria Regondi and Alan Whiteside; Combating poverty in Africa: 2015 and beyond Yusuf Bangura; Taking Africa beyond the MDGs: the role of higher education in development / H. Russel Botman. Show less