Putting the development agenda right

In devising the post-2015 framework, the international community needs to move beyond the primacy of this narrow economistic metric toward a broad rights-based agenda rooted in the human rights principles that the international community has already endorsed and coupled with rigorous monitoring and accountability mechanisms, writes Roberto Bissio of Social Watch.

Despite significant macroeconomic growth over the past ten to fifteen years globally, especially in many developing countries, progress of key social indicators has slowed down since 2000. To a considerable degree this is the result of growing inequalities between and within nations.

The dominant criterion for measuring poverty, the USD 1.25 per day limit, is inadequate and needs to be changed: USD 1.25 per day only indicates that a person does not live in a situation of “extreme poverty.”

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SOURCE: Development dialogue paper series