Millennium Development Goals – Project Type – Kapuscinski Development Lectures – what top thinkers think about development

16.10.2012

Abhijit Banerjee

"Good politics do not necessarily translate into good policies and bad politics do not necessarily generate bad policies"

Poor economics – effective poverty reduction policies

Esther Duflo, photo: L. Barry Hetherington, all rights reserved by J-PAL

Effective poverty reduction beyond MDGs

11.12.2013

Jeffrey Sachs

"There shouldn't be anything top-down in the Sustainable Development Goals. They should inspire actions of individuals, businesses, NGOs, governments, local authorities, everyone".

New Age of Sustainable Development

15.10.2014

Lant Pritchett

Kinky development that ignores needs, wishes, wants and aspirations both of the poor and of the middle class is a narrow and shortsighted strategy.

Kinky development – why “1$/day” doesn’t solve poverty

29.10.2014

Jens Martens

Narrative of development that world is split between developed and underdeveloped countries, just measured by growth of GDP is wrong.

Truly universal post 2015 development agenda

Human relations at heart of development

Development assistance in a new world

Development goals – brilliant propaganda?

Challenging inequalities and unsustainabilities

Thomas Pogge

#KAPTalks interviews: democractic empowerment of majorities

Simon Maxwell

#KAPTalks interviews: go beyond project-level development

Eveline Herfkens

#KAPTalks interviews: bold leadership needed

Jan Vandemoortele

#KAPTalks interviews: Global Goals need more work

Homi Kharas

#KAPTalks interviews: Kapuscinski’s concern about voices of people

Melissa Leach

#KAPTalks interviews: leave no one behind

Simon Zadek

#KAPTalks interviews: multilateralism helping effective solutions

Maciej Popowski

#KAPTalks interviews: sustainability of development results

05.03.2013

Kevin Watkins

"Inequality is the defining issue of our age"

Inequality barrier to human development

09.01.2015

Homi Kharas

"The focus of sustainable development has to shift from being applicable simply to poor countries to being relevant for all countries"

Transition to “a developing world”

11.02.2015

Julia Gillard

"A big year beckons. My challenge to everyone: ensure that education is the center of post-2015 agenda"

Education – a key driver for development

30.01.2013

Mark Malloch-Brown

"Successful development includes failures"

What would Kapuscinski make of development today?

05.11.2014

Aromar Revi

The battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities.

Urban at heart of Sustainable Development Goals

21.02.2013

Michelle Bachelet

"The lack of trust in leaders and the urgent challenges of poverty, inequality, conflict and climate change demand a new model of leadership and development"

Unfinished business of Millennium Goals

"For our actions to add up to truly sustainable development, we need common goals to inspire us; evidence to illuminate the way forward; and institutions to bring us together across sectors" Helen Clark

Resetting the global development agenda

29.03.2012

Jan Vandemoortele

"There is conventional wisdom that Africa is slowing Millennium Development Goals, but Africa is progressing much above average except for maternal health"