Birleşmiş Milletler binyıl kalkınma hedeflerinin ulaşılabilirlik açısından sorgulanışı: Birinci hedefin ulusual ve yerel düzeye taşınmasında Türkiye örneği

The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the United Nations? (UN) efforts to deal effectively with the problem of global poverty. The UN?s efforts are valuable in the sense that this is a global and systemic problem and without eradicating the poverty problem, the world in which we live would not be just and stable. In this thesis, I suggest that despite the UN?s success in developing a multi-dimensional approach to poverty alleviation through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there is the problem of the Millennium Project failing to break with the neo-liberal orthodoxy that benefits the developed world, while the poorest nations remain excluded from global economic gains. In that sense, the MDGs fall short in helping poorest nations break the chains and cycles of poverty; and thus MDGs are likely to fail in penetrating national and local development strategies, as presented in the Turkish case. Hence, this thesis contributes to the literature in a way that the Turkish case illustrates a critical and analytical examination of policy implementations of the MDGs in a developing country context.