Perspective (graphical)

Investment (military)

Political science

Millennium Development Goals

Politics

Computer science

Sociology

Economics

Set (abstract data type)

Economic growth

Sustainable development

Artificial intelligence

Programming language

Developing country

Regional science

Dialogues in Human Geography

The successes and failures of the UN Millennium Development Goals and the establishment of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals provide many opportunities for geographic engagement and critical attention. Development goals, in their focus at the national level and on measurable indicators, redirect investment and frame views of the world. They are often difficult to measure and implement and sometimes contradictory. In reviewing the history, progress, and critiques of the UN goals, this article asks what a geographic perspective shares and adds to the debates about development, its measurement, and impact.

Geographic perspectives on development goals