WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (WJSS)
ISSN: 2504 – 9232
Volume 2, No. 2, September 2017
Pages 131-148
DOI: 10.36108/wjss/7102.20.0280
TAKING STOCK OF THE MDGS: SUCCESSES, FAILURES AND CHALLENGES
ENDURANCE UZOBO AND RUTH EBOSETALE AKHUETIE
Abstract
This paper evaluated the performance of the MDGs, and based on a critical interrogation of the successes and failures, concluded that the MDGs under achieved. It consequently posited that for Africa, there is the urgent and desperate need for a radically different approach to understanding and tackling regional challenges in the post 2015 development Agenda.
Keywords: MDGS, Africa Development, poverty, environmental sustainability, Nigeria