Global Development and Human Rights analyses global efforts to implement long-term goals that seek to promote the health, happiness, and freedoms of individuals.

Paul J. Nelson is an associate professor of International Development at the University of Pittsburgh.

Shareen Hertel, Professor of Political Science and Human Rights, University of Connecticut, and Editor, The Journal of Human Rights:
“This book provides a lucid, accessible, and trenchant analysis of the potential and limits of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Paul Nelson moves deliberately and seamlessly between high-level theoretical frameworks and the grassroots reality of people and organizations at the heart of the struggle to implement economic rights. This deeply nuanced explanation of what has (and has not) worked in relation to the SDGs succeeds in making us care about development: the dilemmas of distribution, inequality, participation, and accountability central to this assessment are central to our shared futures. This book is vital to understanding how development paradigms have changed over time and to making our way forward collectively amidst the uncertainty facing us all.”