Not everyone agrees that the best way to cure the misery of the world is to reach yet another "overall objective", developed by economists at financial institutions that have major responsibilities of the current development status. In this blog, the schizophrenia of a small group of development economists (and some famous singer and actor) is questioned.
Schizophrenia technocrats: We establish such
that to solve the problems of poverty in the world is sufficient to achieve the Millennium Development Goals the United Nations. These objectives, approved by the UN General Assembly in 2001, replacing the previous attempts to provide quantitative targets for development to be achieved within a specified time and with the aim of guiding the international strategies for development.
study Sanjay Reddy and Antoine heute "Global Development Goals: The Folly of Technocratic Pretensions" (in Italian. "Global Development Goals: The Folly of Technocratic Claim"), respectively, researchers at Columbia University and the Revenue Watch Institute of New York, points out that the approaches exist to identify the best strategies for achieving the Millennium Goals are inaccurate due to the fact that rely on assumptions about a little justifiable and quality of statistics is very low. In particular, the study highlights the risks that such an approach may have the estimates in informing and shaping its policy actions (investments in the development of beneficiary countries).
The cost to reach the MDGs was estimated by UNDP (UN Development Agency) of $ 50 billion per year (2002), as the sum of the resources needed to achieve individual goals. The World Bank and UNDP have subsequently attempted to estimate these costs more detail: for Objective 1 (reducing poverty and malnutrition) between 54 and 62 billion while the other goals would cost between 35 and 76 billion per year. Another report to UNDP estimates that the first objective are to invest at least $ 76 billion (well above previous estimates. Each calculation and 'being done on the basis of previously published studies and estimates and in most countries, there are adequate data to justify these estimates.
These estimates and strategies that accompany them do not take into account the risks that may have an unexpected shock during the period of application of a certain approach.
The risks of these approaches are significant in the process of decision-making on long periods of time and a periodic review and adjustment can only limit the damage. Therefore
and 'doubtful that solutions to complex problems can be known by a single group of experienced technocrats. And that this does not help the work to identify actions and policies relevant and applicable. These solutions can be identified only by an experience of iron that matures with experience in the field and by collecting data and instances of those who work in this area on the ground and not locked up in the air-conditioned offices of the United Nations.
Source: Global Development Goals: The Folly of Technocratic Pretensions "p.22, Development Policy Review 26 (1), 2008:.
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