| ID | 135205 |
| Title Proper | Promises to keep |
| Other Title Information | crafting better development goals |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lomborg, Bjorn |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The United Nations has always had lots of targets, goals, and declarations. You probably didn’t know, for example, that 2014 is the International Year of Family Farming and the International Year of Crystallography -- or that you are currently living through the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Such initiatives often reflect good intentions but rarely prove consequential. Between 1950 and 2000, at least 12 UN resolutions called for some form of universal education. In 1961, the so-called Addis Ababa Plan pledged that primary schooling in Africa would be “universal, compulsory and free” within two decades. Twenty years later, nearly half of all African children were still out of school. Countless other efforts promised equally lofty achievements, from gender equality to world peace, that never materialized. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Affair Vol.93, No.6; Nov-Dec.2014: p.130-138 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Affairs Vol: 93 No 6 |
| Standard Number | United Nations – UN |