Kevin Watkins
Kevin Watkins
Kevin Watkins joined the Overseas Development Institute as Executive Director in June 2013. His research focuses on education, globalization and human development. He is a former nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. He was previously the director and lead author of the UNESCO's Education for All Global Monitoring Report...
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If this summit doesn't produce a strong commitment to strengthen cooperation around the Millennium Development Goals...then we may as well forget the project.
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If this summit fails, there really is no way back.
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We have seen four years of wrangling without anything happening. They are stuck in quicksand, and if they don't get out by December the round will collapse.
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This report is sending a very clear signal that most of the Millennium Development Goals will be missed in most countries if we continue on the current trend.
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on debt at least it sounds encouraging, it seems there has been some progress.
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We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.
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The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.
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Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
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The Index shows in clear, cold numbers that many countries are not only failing to progress, but are actually slipping backward, and they will continue on that downhill path unless the international community steps in to help with more resources and new policies.