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标题：Revisiting the MDG’s: Exploring a Multidimensional Framework for Human Development
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作者：Nasir Khan
期刊名称：Journal of Asia Pacific Studies
印刷版ISSN：1948-0091
电子版ISSN：1948-0105
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：2
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：With a standardized set of goals, and targets set in rates, proportions and percentages, an aggregated generalization marks the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). Obscuring the real entitlement-deficits, such an approach cloaks the multidimensionality of human suffering by ignoring distributional inequity and interpersonal diversities. The MDG's, therefore, needs a revisiting within a broader informational space like the one envisaged by the capabilities approach (CA) of Amartya Sen. The paper develops a framework for such an assessment, evaluates the outreach and effectiveness of the MDG's within the framework, and taking it as a paradigm, outlines an alternative global agenda for human development in terms of CA
关键词：Capabilities approach; Millenium Development Goals; ;Multidimensionality of human development; Distributional Equity