Ki-moon, Ban2019-09-252019-09-252011-06-0620109789290850762http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/178798"Human progress in recent decades has been very uneven. Alongside remarkable advances in life expectancy, literacy and overall human well-being, there remain serious concerns and deprivation – persistent poverty, heightened inequalities and greater vulnerability of many communities and social groups in much of the world. The United Nations summits of the 1990s, in particular the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, emphasized the need to balance the economic and social objectives of development. The Social Summit called for policy and institutional changes to promote inclusive development and, in the Copenhagen Declaration, Governments committed “to creating an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that will enable people to achieve social development”. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) also expressed, in concrete terms, this renewed commitment to social development. And indeed, the goals have been a highly effective tool to mobilize Governments and other development actors, including the scientifi c and research community. Combating Poverty and Inequality is an important contribution to efforts to systematically explain how poverty reduction depends crucially on the interconnections among economic development, social policy and politics."(pg 3)Pages: 1engWith permission of the license/copyright holderpovertyidentityPolitical ethicsEthics of political systemsPeace ethicsGovernance and ethicsBook chapter