posted by Cecelia Lynch
Over the next several years, we will certainly hear and read a lot about the “SDGs.” People might understandably ask, “Whatever became of the MDGs?” Either we have learned a lot about poverty and development, such that we know that “sustainability works,” as both a concept and a policy guide, or we are trying to cover for the fact that we don’t know that much after all, that insufficient progress has been made in achieving the elusive thing called “development,” and that the idea of “sustainability” is sufficiently grand and yet ambiguous to cover a range of possible goals and outcomes.
A. Bayo Ogunrotifa’s piece, “Grand Developmentalism: MDGs and SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa,” is a first step at analyzing the new nomenclature. Stay tuned for more!