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Mexico from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: Congruence and Dissonance in Development Compromises

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The adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration (United Nations 2000) at the UN Millennium Summit, held September 6–8, 2000, was the culmination of a decade of major UN conferences and summits, addressing the world’s global challenges “[on] the environment (Rio 1992), population (Cairo 1994), social development (Copenhagen 1995), and the status of women (Beijing 1995).” So, while the Millennium Declaration “was ultimately drafted in a UN conference room, […] its contents had roots in the outcomes from the 1990s conferences” just mentioned (McArthur 2014, 6).

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Villanueva Ulfgard, R. (2017). Mexico from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals: Congruence and Dissonance in Development Compromises. In: Villanueva Ulfgard, R. (eds) Mexico and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58582-0_2

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