The Art of the Impossible: Measurement Choices and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

摘要: Despite the recognised weaknesses of Millennium Development Goals embedment indicators within a simple global measurement framework has proved compelling and communicable. The result is surge interest in design post-2015 agenda. This produced innumerable innovative proposals for new goals targets backlash from those wishing to maintain focused, statistically robust politically feasible framework. paper argues that third perspective soon needed – criteria making choices between different options. These will should be ultimately political but it worth considering on what basis they made. Rio Declaration 2012 establishes number this purpose remain at general level gloss over some hard trade-offs. begins by surveying context discussion (Section 1), considers potential functions purposes agenda light impact MDGs 2); proposes both thematic selection 3); applies these seemingly case human rights governance 4).