Preface The present paper attempts to identify multiple pathways through which an employment-focussed development strategy can contribute towards speedier achievement of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In view of the importance of employment as a route out of poverty, the author explores the analytics of these pathways, theorising appropriate employment strategies as part of overa...

The Government of Brazil has been attaching great importance to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals—(MDGs). Three National Monitoring Reports [1–3] have been produced, based on detailed official data of these goals, as a partnership between the Brazilian Government and the agencies comprising the United Nations System in the country. The Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA...

Last weekend in New York heralded another of the annual UN heads-of-state summits at which inappropriate targets, processes and evaluation systems were reconfirmed. Politicians joined multilateral bureaucrats to congratulate [2] each other for hitting many of the MDG targets during the 2000-2015 period. Now there are 17 new SDGs with 169 new targets and more than 300 indicators to aim for by 2030.