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Lawrence Haddad welcomes the UN MDG Summit action plan but warns of the challenges ahead
24 September 2010
In his latest blog IDS' Director, Lawrence Haddad, welcomes the renewed political commitment to the goals but warns that tackling inequality remains a major challenge on the road to 2015 and beyond.
Professor Haddad finds that the guiding principles for action agenda in Ban Ki Moon's Keeping the Promise (pdf) seem to strike all the right notes such as national ownership and leadership; the interdependence of rights, governance, security, gender inequality, development; and the need to live up to the norms and values in the original Millennium Declaration.
He highlights the need for the MDGs to take inequality, and not just gender inequality, and social justice into account in order to succeed for the world's poorest and most vulnerable, many of whom do not necessarily live in low income countries.
Lawrence Haddad's blog: Development Horizons
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