The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become the all-purpose weapon of state development policy. Hardly any development policy funding application can do without the three magic letters any more. At the same time, the goals also show what is indirectly meant by “development cooperation”: the supposed rescue of Africa, state-sanctioned population policy, and the prevention of migration – all projects with a colonial and racist tradition and an uncertain future.
Daniel Bendix 2008: Development Policy under the Sign of the Millennium Development Goals. An Antiracist Perspective on German DC. In: Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag u.a. (eds.): Von Trommlern und Helfern. Contributions to non-racist development education and project work. Berlin: Berlin, 26-28