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Beyond the MDGs
What will the global development agenda look like after 2015?
PUBLISHER
Satinder Bindra
MANAGING EDITOR
Andrew Perrin
SENIOR EDITOR
John Larkin
EDITORIAL ADVISOR
Nessim Ahmad
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Jenina Alli
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Miguel Paulino
COPY EDITOR
Leo Magno
DESIGN
Cleone Baradas
COVER PHOTOS: AFP
Development Asia features development issues important to Asia and the Pacific.
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Inside
SPECIAL REPORT : BEYOND THE MDGs
Setting the Agenda
Cover Illustration: Michael Morgenstern
DEPARTMENTS
The post-2015 development agenda is not to maintain the status quo but to drive the world forward.
—Ban Ki-moon
PHOTO: CORBIS (BAN KI-MOON)
18
Q&A
The UN Secretary-General discusses his vision for the new development goals
24
More Ebb Than Flow
Easing Asia’s water woes
PHOTO: AFP (BIILL GATES)
35
FEATURES
The Right Stuff
One man’s journey to a skilled job illustrates Asia’s retraining challenge
41
Unstable Staples
Rising food prices hit the poor
48
Black & White
PUBLISHER’S
NOTE
MOMENT OF TRUTH
THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT Goals (MDGs) have served humanity well. They galvanized global attention for helping the world’s poor and vulnerable. In less than 3 years, a new development agenda will take up the challenge of delivering a sustainable future for humanity. The successor goals will benefit from the MDG’s focus. But they must accomplish much more in a world that has changed dramatically since the MDGs were conceived.
A global conversation is underway to frame the new goals. It’s early days, but the vision is bold: a world without acute poverty, where the marginalized lead productive lives, and where economic growth doesn’t strain the planet to breaking point. The goals will likely be universal, measurable, few in number, and easily understood.
The developing world’s strong voice in the consultation process is likely to result in goals that are both emphatic and far-reaching. A key player in this process is United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who provides an exclusive glimpse into his post-2015 vision in a conversation with Development Asia. We’re also thrilled to have Bill Gates explaining how better development data can energize the next agenda.
The post-2015 development agenda, and the goals that will drive it, will be a moment of truth for the world. I’m delighted that one of my first public actions as ADB’s new publisher and principal director of external relations is to introduce Development Asia’s special report on these pivotal issues, and their implications for Asia and the Pacific.
Satinder Bindra
PUBLISHER
CONTRIBUTORS
BILL GATES
is cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports initiatives in education, global health, and poverty reduction. He cofounded global software leader Microsoft after leaving Harvard University in his junior year. In 2000 he and wife Melinda created the foundation, which works to expand opportunities for the poor and underprivileged by collaborating with grant recipients and other partners. Find his opinion piece about development data on p. 32.
JOHN LARKIN
is senior editor of Development Asia. He has lived in Asia for nearly 15 years, mostly as a foreign correspondent in the Republic of Korea, and in India where he was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal. John has also written for Time magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Sydney Morning Herald, and won two awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia for his coverage of the region. In this issue he writes about technology transfer on p. 27 and remittances on p. 38.
PALANI MOHAN
is a Madras-born Australian photographer who has lived in Asia since 1999. His work has been published in many leading magazines and newspapers including National Geographic, Time, and the New York Times. Palani has won awards from World Press Photo, the National Press Photographers Association, and American Photo and Communication Arts. He has published four books of documentary photography. His work appears on p. 48.
The International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing centre serving the eight countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. The Centre devotes its every effort to