This paper empirically examines the determinants of child health in developing countries and how public policy may interact with these determinants. It improves on previous empirical studies by conducting a more careful analysis of the determinants controlling for possible endogeneity, and by...

The main argument of this paper is that progress towards gender equality and women's empowerment in the development agenda requires a human rights-based approach, and requires support for the women's movement to activate and energize the agenda. Both are missing from Millennium Development Goal...

This article inquires into what have been the normative and empirical impacts of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 8's choice of targets and indicators on human rights. It identifies some principles on the duty of international cooperation for the achievement of human rights and applies them...

This article explores the importance of and value added by applying the capability approach to strategize, design, monitor or evaluate development initiatives, by operationalizing this agency-oriented (participatory) and opportunity-based perspective and by widening standard methods to deal with...

Despite the change in development thinking towards a multidimensional concept of human development, the fact is that this paradigm shift has not found its parallel evolution in the practice of development planning, monitoring and evaluation. Logic model-based methods, such as results-based...

In the debate on the post-2015 development agenda, a clear preference exists for simple and quantifiable targets. The water sector provides a useful perspective in which to evaluate the use of this strategy because it has been subject to quantitative target setting since 1976. We critically...

Despite almost a quarter of a century during which the global community pursued the goal of child survival, together with targets for improving child health and nutrition, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) had but one target: the reduction of child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and...