Alternative development strategies for the post-2015 era

"The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide that would result from present approaches. The contributors to the book are independent development experts, brought together by the UN to identify a development strategy capable of promoting a broad-based economic recovery and at the same time guaranteeing social equity and environmental sustainability both within countries and internationally. This new development approach seeks to promote the reforms needed to improve global governance, providing a more equitable distribution of global public goods. The contributors offer a critical evaluation of past development experiences and report on their creative search for new and well-thought out answers for the future. They suggest that economic progress, fairer societies and environmental sustainability can be compatible objectives, but only when pursued simultaneously by all."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Overview / José Antonio Alonso, Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Rob Vos -- 1. Globalization at a Cross Roads: Key Challenges for the Twenty-First Century / Rob Vos -- 2. Should Global Goal Setting Continue, and How, in the Post-2015 Era? / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr -- 3. Do We Need New Development Models? The Impact of Neo-Liberal Policies / Frances Stewart -- 4. Learning from the Past: Which of the Past/Current Development Strategies are Best Suited to Deal With the 'Quadruple Crisis' ? / Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Milica Uvalic -- 5. Towards Climate Compatible and Resilient Development / J.B. (Hans) Opschoor -- 6. Aiming for Food and Nutrition Security in a Changed Global Context: Strategies for Ending Hunger / Joachim von Braun -- 7. The International Development Strategy Beyond 2015: Taking Demographic Dynamics into Account / Ana Louiza Cortez -- 8. Common Elements of National Development Strategies Consistent with the Post-2015 Achievements of MDGs / Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Rob Vos -- 9. Building a Stable and Equitable Global Monetary System / Bilge Erten and José Antonio Ocampo -- 10. From Aid to Global Development Policy / José Antonio Alonso -- 11. International Migration in the Development Agenda / José Antonio Alonso -- 12. Enabling International Environment / Norman Girvan and Ana Luiza Cortez -- Index.