Download or read book Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals written by Alberto Cimadamore and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and policies, it exposes the structurally flawed and misleading measurements of poverty and hunger on which these efforts have been based, and which have led official sources to routinely underestimate the scale of world poverty even as the global distribution of wealth becomes ever more imbalanced.