Benchmarking and blame games: Exploring the contestation of the Millennium Development Goals
Benchmarking and blame games: Exploring the contestation of the Millennium Development Goals
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10.1017/s0260210515000406
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2015-12-01
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3
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Clegg, Liam
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作者：
Clegg, Liam
长期以来，基准一直是全球发展行业的核心组成部分，最近最突出的倡议是千年发展目标框架。然而，在现有学术范围内，围绕千年发展目标框架的代理人级别的互动仍未得到充分探讨。在这里，在对关键的千年发展目标审查峰会内部和周围发生的互动进行分析的基础上，我开发了一种类型学，以澄清标杆游戏和指责游戏的交叉。总体而言，我证明，尽管千年发展目标的设计师努力隔离该倡议，但指责游戏已经渗透到政策制定者与该框架的接触中。此外，这些指责游戏的内容已经延续到最近概述的可持续发展目标(SDGs)中。在这个后续的可持续发展目标框架内，出现了一种战略澄清的模式，即高收入国家实现援助目标的更精确责任，以及低收入国家实现治理改革目标的更精确责任。考虑到联合国审查峰会上明显存在的根深蒂固的裂痕，在可持续发展目标的生命周期内，类似的指责游戏似乎可能会遵循定期评估。
Benchmarking has long been a central component of the global development industry, with the most prominent recent initiative being the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework. However, within existing scholarship, the agent-level interactions surrounding the MDG framework remain under-explored. Here, on the back of an analysis of interactions that took place within and around key MDG review summits, I develop a typology to clarify the intersection of benchmarking and blame games. Overall, I demonstrate that despite the efforts of the MDG architects to insulate the initiative, blame games have permeated policymakers' engagements with the framework. Moreover, the content of these blame games have been carried over into the recently outlined Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A pattern of strategic clarification has seen the emergence within this follow-on SDG framework of more precise responsibilities on higher-income states to meet aid targets, and on lower-income states to meet governance reform targets. Given the deeply-embedded cleavages that were evident in UN review summits, similar blame games seem likely to follow the periodic evaluations within the SDGs' lifespan.