Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sakiko Fukuda-Parr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sakiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Fukuda-Parr |
| SIGNATURE | FUKUDA-PARR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is director of the Human Development Report Office for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She was chief author of the UNDP report for 2004, “Expanding Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World.” |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Why is Macroeconomics Neglected in Equity and Inclusion Strategies for Sustainable Development? An Exploration of Four Systemic Barriers
The literatures on Macroeconomics and Human development and capabilities have been described as constituting “two different worlds” that never intersect despite the importance of macroeconomics for human development (Nayyar [2012]. “Macroeconomics and Human Development.” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 13 (1): 7–30.). This paper explores the barriers that keep the two worlds apart in policy making. It considers the case of national …
When indicators fail
Recent literature on indicators as technology of global governance has shown the power of numbers in shaping knowledge and policy priorities. But not all indicators have powerful effects; some remain invisible. Are such indicators an obverse of powerful indicators? Are the same process of indirect exercise of power to indirectly achieve social and economic effects at work? This paper explores the case of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicat…
The Southern origins of sustainable development goals
Introduction-Data, Knowledge, Politics and Localizing the SDGs
This special issue explores the workings of global goals as an instrument of global governance by numbers. These goals can alter power relations, affect the distribution of resources, reorganize national and local priorities, create perverse incentives for performance, and produce narratives that shape thinking and communication. As the articles in the 2014 JHDC special issue showed, the MDGs had complex, often distorting, consequences which were…
The MDGs, Capabilities and Human Rights
1. The Power of Numbers: A Critical Review of Millennium Development Goal Targets for Human Development and Human Rights Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Alicia Ely Yamin and Joshua Greenstein 2. Global Goals as a Policy Tool: Intended and Unintended Consequences Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 3. National or International Poverty Lines or Both? Setting Goals for Income Poverty after 2015 Joshua Greenstein, Ugo Gentilini and Andy Sumner 4. The MDG Hunger Target and the Co…
Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals
"Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agendas by setting global goals. This book critically evaluates the MDG experience from the capabilities and human rights perspectives, and questions the use of quantitative targets as an instrument of global governance. It provides an account of their origins, trajectory and influence in shaping the poli…
From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) differ from the MDGs in purpose, concept, and politics. This article focuses on the gender agenda in the SDGs as a reflection on the shifts from the MDGs to the SDGs. It argues that the SDGs address several of the key shortcomings of the MDGs and incorporate a broader and more transformative agenda that more adequately reflects the complex challenges of the 21st century, and the need for structural reforms…
Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights
One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. How far have we progressed; to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment? This book charts new territory in examining the extent to which countries meet their obligations to progressively realize social and economic rights -- the rights to education, food, health, housing, work and social …
Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach
The political origins of health inequity
Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, its eff orts often come into confl ict with powerful global actors in pursuit of other interests such as protection of national security, safeguarding of sovereignty, or economic goals. This is the starting point of The Lancet…
The Power of Numbers
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, and have led to the use of global goals and target-setting as a central instrument defining the international development agenda. Despite this increased importance, little is understood about how they influence policy priorities of key stakeholders, and their broader consequences. While quantification is the key strength of global goals, i…
Introduction
For centuries and in all regions of the world, food scarcity has been an important driver of migration. Yet the relationship between food scarcity and migration is complex and often indirect. Understanding food scarcity as a driver of migration must therefore focus on the questions of when and how—rather than whether—households move in search of greater food security. The papers presented in this section provide important insights into how divers…
Global Goals as a Policy Tool
Global development goals have become increasingly used by the UN and the international community to promote priority objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals but many others have been set since the 1960s. Despite their prominence and proliferation, little has been written about the concept of global goals as a policy tool, their effectiveness, limitations and broader consequences. This paper…
The MDG Hunger Target and the Competing Frameworks of Food Security
This paper explores the effects of global goals on policies and ideas in development. The paper analyzes the consequences of the Millennium Development Goal hunger target on international development priorities and discourse. We argue that while the target did little to mobilize support to hunger as a global priority, it had more important implications for reshaping food security strategies. It reframed the narrative of hunger around under-nutrit…
Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa
Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa. Yet, people take actions not because of statistical data on inequalities, of which they might not be aware, but because of injust
Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa
Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises
This contribution brings together various strands of analysis about the causes, consequences, and policy ramifications of economic crises, with a specific focus on distributional dynamics. It aims to facilitate a conversation between macroeconomic theorists of crises and instability and feminist economists and scholars of intergroup inequality. Macroeconomic analyses of the Great Recession have centered on the causal role of financial deregulatio…
How Should MDG Success and Failure be Judged
The Right to Development
Since its adoption in 1986 the Declaration on the Right to Development has been mired in academic and political controversies, and has had little impact. Yet it was an important innovation that takes international human rights in addressing injustices in the operations of the global economy that impinge human rights, especially in developing countries. The concept is particularly relevant to the twenty first century challenges as global market in…
Human rights and the capabilities approach
Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human ri…
International Norm Dynamics and the “End of Poverty”
THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL OBJECTIVE REQUIRING INTERNATIONAL cooperation can and has been defined in many ways. Such definitions depend on how political leaders envision important normative goals for world; how economists, philosophers, and political scientists theorize process of development; and how these ideas are utilized and adopted by key stakeholders. A significant evolution in recent years has been emergence of a broad consens…
Poverty and Morality
This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural law, which might…
Reducing Inequality - The Missing MDG
Although important gains have been made in reducing global poverty, the pace of progress across the world is not on track to achieve the 2015 MDG targets. Is this due to lack of ownership on the part of national governments and the international community? This article examines whether the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and donor policy statements are aligned with MDG priorities and targets. The analysis found a high degree of commitme…
Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index
Building on a previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, this article presents country scores and rankings based on the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index (ESRF Index). Unlike socioeconomic indicators, which are often used as proxies for the extent to which rights-holders enjoy economic and social rights, the ESRF Index incorporates the perspective of the duty-bearer as well as the rights-hol…
From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) differ from the MDGs in purpose, concept, and politics. This article focuses on the gender agenda in the SDGs as a reflection on the shifts from the MDGs to the SDGs. It argues that the SDGs address several of the key shortcomings of the MDGs and incorporate a broader and more transformative agenda that more adequately reflects the complex challenges of the 21st century, and the need for structural reforms…
International Norm Dynamics and the “End of Poverty”
THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL OBJECTIVE REQUIRING INTERNATIONAL cooperation can and has been defined in many ways. Such definitions depend on how political leaders envision important normative goals for world; how economists, philosophers, and political scientists theorize process of development; and how these ideas are utilized and adopted by key stakeholders. A significant evolution in recent years has been emergence of a broad consens…
The Human Development Paradigm
Amartya Sen's ideas constitute the core principles of a development approach that has evolved in the Human Development Reports. This approach is a "paradigm" based on the concept of well-being that can help define public policy, but does not embody a set of prescriptions. The current movement from an age of development planning to an age of globalization has meant an increasing attention to agency aspects of development. While earlier Human Devel…
The Southern origins of sustainable development goals
How Should MDG Success and Failure be Judged
Introduction-Data, Knowledge, Politics and Localizing the SDGs
This special issue explores the workings of global goals as an instrument of global governance by numbers. These goals can alter power relations, affect the distribution of resources, reorganize national and local priorities, create perverse incentives for performance, and produce narratives that shape thinking and communication. As the articles in the 2014 JHDC special issue showed, the MDGs had complex, often distorting, consequences which were…
An Index of Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment
In response to an increasing demand for rigorous monitoring of states in meeting their human rights obligations, a growing literature has emerged on measuring human rights fulfillment. Data are increasingly used in human rights assessment and advocacy but with an ad hoc approach, with three common limitations: frequent use of subjective indicators; focus on the right bearer enjoyment of right without taking account of duty bearer conduct; and eve…
Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises
This contribution brings together various strands of analysis about the causes, consequences, and policy ramifications of economic crises, with a specific focus on distributional dynamics. It aims to facilitate a conversation between macroeconomic theorists of crises and instability and feminist economists and scholars of intergroup inequality. Macroeconomic analyses of the Great Recession have centered on the causal role of financial deregulatio…
What Does Feminization of Poverty Mean? It Isn't Just Lack of Income
This paper challenges the use of poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty. It proposes an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces
Global Goals as a Policy Tool
Global development goals have become increasingly used by the UN and the international community to promote priority objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals but many others have been set since the 1960s. Despite their prominence and proliferation, little has been written about the concept of global goals as a policy tool, their effectiveness, limitations and broader consequences. This paper…
Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index
Building on a previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, this article presents country scores and rankings based on the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index (ESRF Index). Unlike socioeconomic indicators, which are often used as proxies for the extent to which rights-holders enjoy economic and social rights, the ESRF Index incorporates the perspective of the duty-bearer as well as the rights-hol…
Millennium Development Goals
Many goals have been set by the United Nations since the first development decade of the 1960s. What is new about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? First, an unprecedented assembly of the world's heads of state generated them when they met in September 2000. Second, the goals put human development--poverty and people and their lives--at the center of the global agenda for the new millennium, a shift away from growth as the central objectiv…
Human Insecurity in a Global World
HUMAN INSECURITY IN A GLOBAL WORLD Edited by Lincoln Chen, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Ellen Seidensticker Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Global Equity Initiative-Asia Center/Harvard University Press, 2004. xviii, 278pp, US$29.95 paper (ISBN 0-674-01454-5)Human Insecurity in a Global World is an interesting attempt to give clarity to a vague and fuzzy concept. The book's key features include a broad application of the concept to a variety of ca…
When indicators fail
Recent literature on indicators as technology of global governance has shown the power of numbers in shaping knowledge and policy priorities. But not all indicators have powerful effects; some remain invisible. Are such indicators an obverse of powerful indicators? Are the same process of indirect exercise of power to indirectly achieve social and economic effects at work? This paper explores the case of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicat…
The Right to Development
Since its adoption in 1986 the Declaration on the Right to Development has been mired in academic and political controversies, and has had little impact. Yet it was an important innovation that takes international human rights in addressing injustices in the operations of the global economy that impinge human rights, especially in developing countries. The concept is particularly relevant to the twenty first century challenges as global market in…
Why is Macroeconomics Neglected in Equity and Inclusion Strategies for Sustainable Development? An Exploration of Four Systemic Barriers
The literatures on Macroeconomics and Human development and capabilities have been described as constituting “two different worlds” that never intersect despite the importance of macroeconomics for human development (Nayyar [2012]. “Macroeconomics and Human Development.” Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 13 (1): 7–30.). This paper explores the barriers that keep the two worlds apart in policy making. It considers the case of national …
The MDG Hunger Target and the Competing Frameworks of Food Security
This paper explores the effects of global goals on policies and ideas in development. The paper analyzes the consequences of the Millennium Development Goal hunger target on international development priorities and discourse. We argue that while the target did little to mobilize support to hunger as a global priority, it had more important implications for reshaping food security strategies. It reframed the narrative of hunger around under-nutrit…
Cultural freedom & human development today
the world–a fear of cultures that seem threatening, for one reason or another.1 This fear has generated questions about the role of culture in human progress that have increasingly come to dominate public debates. For example: Does Hispanic immigration erode the American culture and threaten identity? Is Islam an obstacle to democracy? Does the power of traditional cultures explain stagnation in Africa? Will the conflicts between Shiite and Sunni…
Redefining Technical Cooperation
Technical cooperation defines the role of the United Nations in its operational work for promoting social and economic development. This article reviews the meaning of this mandate, and argues that a major challenge for the United Nations lies in a wholesale retooling of this role. This retooling is needed to meet the needs of the twenty first century which are starkly different from those of the newly independent nations of the post war era. Fir…
Redefining Technical Cooperation
Technical cooperation defines the role of the United Nations in its operational work for promoting social and economic development. This article reviews the meaning of this mandate, and argues that a major challenge for the United Nations lies in a wholesale retooling of this role. This retooling is needed to meet the needs of the twenty first century which are starkly different from those of the newly independent nations of the post war era. Fir…
What Does Feminization of Poverty Mean? It Isn't Just Lack of Income
This paper challenges the use of poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty. It proposes an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces
Measuring the Technology Achievement of Nations and the Capacity to Participate in the Network Age
Disparities among countries in their capacity to create and use technology for development has persisted for a long time and are now huge. It is likely to become an increasingly significant factor in determining patterns of global development and poverty in the 21st century. The last decade’s technological transformations and the emergence of the global marketplace have raised the stakes for all countries to be technologically connected – to be a…
New Threats to Human Security in the Era of Globalization
This paper makes a case for analysing the new insecurities introduced or worsened by globalization from a human security perspective. The author examines the ways in which globalization is changing the word -- economically, politically, and in terms of information and communications technology -- and then reviews the new insecurities that require policy attention. The paper specifically tackles the issues of global crime, trafficking in humans, i…
The Human Development Paradigm
Amartya Sen's ideas constitute the core principles of a development approach that has evolved in the Human Development Reports. This approach is a "paradigm" based on the concept of well-being that can help define public policy, but does not embody a set of prescriptions. The current movement from an age of development planning to an age of globalization has meant an increasing attention to agency aspects of development. While earlier Human Devel…
Cultural freedom & human development today
the world–a fear of cultures that seem threatening, for one reason or another.1 This fear has generated questions about the role of culture in human progress that have increasingly come to dominate public debates. For example: Does Hispanic immigration erode the American culture and threaten identity? Is Islam an obstacle to democracy? Does the power of traditional cultures explain stagnation in Africa? Will the conflicts between Shiite and Sunni…
Millennium Development Goals
Many goals have been set by the United Nations since the first development decade of the 1960s. What is new about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? First, an unprecedented assembly of the world's heads of state generated them when they met in September 2000. Second, the goals put human development--poverty and people and their lives--at the center of the global agenda for the new millennium, a shift away from growth as the central objectiv…
Human Insecurity in a Global World
HUMAN INSECURITY IN A GLOBAL WORLD Edited by Lincoln Chen, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Ellen Seidensticker Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Global Equity Initiative-Asia Center/Harvard University Press, 2004. xviii, 278pp, US$29.95 paper (ISBN 0-674-01454-5)Human Insecurity in a Global World is an interesting attempt to give clarity to a vague and fuzzy concept. The book's key features include a broad application of the concept to a variety of ca…
Has the Human Development Approach Influenced Policy
An Index of Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment
In response to an increasing demand for rigorous monitoring of states in meeting their human rights obligations, a growing literature has emerged on measuring human rights fulfillment. Data are increasingly used in human rights assessment and advocacy but with an ad hoc approach, with three common limitations: frequent use of subjective indicators; focus on the right bearer enjoyment of right without taking account of duty bearer conduct; and eve…
Poverty and Morality
This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural law, which might…
Reducing Inequality - The Missing MDG
Although important gains have been made in reducing global poverty, the pace of progress across the world is not on track to achieve the 2015 MDG targets. Is this due to lack of ownership on the part of national governments and the international community? This article examines whether the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and donor policy statements are aligned with MDG priorities and targets. The analysis found a high degree of commitme…
Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index
Building on a previously proposed methodology for an index of economic and social rights fulfillment, this article presents country scores and rankings based on the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index (ESRF Index). Unlike socioeconomic indicators, which are often used as proxies for the extent to which rights-holders enjoy economic and social rights, the ESRF Index incorporates the perspective of the duty-bearer as well as the rights-hol…
Human rights and the capabilities approach
Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human ri…
International Norm Dynamics and the “End of Poverty”
THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL OBJECTIVE REQUIRING INTERNATIONAL cooperation can and has been defined in many ways. Such definitions depend on how political leaders envision important normative goals for world; how economists, philosophers, and political scientists theorize process of development; and how these ideas are utilized and adopted by key stakeholders. A significant evolution in recent years has been emergence of a broad consens…
How Should MDG Success and Failure be Judged
The Right to Development
Since its adoption in 1986 the Declaration on the Right to Development has been mired in academic and political controversies, and has had little impact. Yet it was an important innovation that takes international human rights in addressing injustices in the operations of the global economy that impinge human rights, especially in developing countries. The concept is particularly relevant to the twenty first century challenges as global market in…
Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa
Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa. Yet, people take actions not because of statistical data on inequalities, of which they might not be aware, but because of injust
Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa
Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises
This contribution brings together various strands of analysis about the causes, consequences, and policy ramifications of economic crises, with a specific focus on distributional dynamics. It aims to facilitate a conversation between macroeconomic theorists of crises and instability and feminist economists and scholars of intergroup inequality. Macroeconomic analyses of the Great Recession have centered on the causal role of financial deregulatio…
Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach
The political origins of health inequity
Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, its eff orts often come into confl ict with powerful global actors in pursuit of other interests such as protection of national security, safeguarding of sovereignty, or economic goals. This is the starting point of The Lancet…
The Power of Numbers
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, and have led to the use of global goals and target-setting as a central instrument defining the international development agenda. Despite this increased importance, little is understood about how they influence policy priorities of key stakeholders, and their broader consequences. While quantification is the key strength of global goals, i…
Introduction
For centuries and in all regions of the world, food scarcity has been an important driver of migration. Yet the relationship between food scarcity and migration is complex and often indirect. Understanding food scarcity as a driver of migration must therefore focus on the questions of when and how—rather than whether—households move in search of greater food security. The papers presented in this section provide important insights into how divers…
Global Goals as a Policy Tool
Global development goals have become increasingly used by the UN and the international community to promote priority objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals but many others have been set since the 1960s. Despite their prominence and proliferation, little has been written about the concept of global goals as a policy tool, their effectiveness, limitations and broader consequences. This paper…
Political science (30 works) · Economics (26 works) · Human Rights and Development (21 works) · International Development and Aid (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Poverty (12 works) · Politics (11 works)