Sustainable development: challenge or chimera?

Jan Pronk

No 2016.13, IOB Working Papers from Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy (IOB)

Abstract: At the turn of the millennia, in the year 2000, a new political momentum emerged. It was the turning year not only of decades, but also of centuries, even millennia. Though market forces and geopolitical power relations are not influenced by a mere calendar arithmetic, the end of the century created an ideal political opportunity to look both back and forward, and take a longer view. A kind of quadruple New Year’s Eve feeling forced opinion leaders and politicians to wonder what had gone wrong, when, where and why, and how negative trends could be reversed.

Keywords: sustainable; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2016-09
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