This book discusses the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) - the UN Poverty Targets for 2015. Part one discusses the background to the MDGs, their value and omissions, what they mean for changing understandings of 'development' and Development Studies and whether the MDGs will be achieved. Part two focuses on each goal or set of goals: extreme poverty (income and hunger); education and health; gender equality and empowerment; environmental sustainability and global partnerships for development.

How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second Iberoamerican Conference, KGSWC 2020, held in Merida, Mexico, in November 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 15 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers cover research and practices in several fields of AI, such as knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing/text mining, machine/deep learning, semantic web, and knowledge graphs.

How can human capabilities be articulated and promoted in practice? How can the challenges encountered in its application be addressed? This volume answers these research questions through nine country case studies from the Global North and the Global South.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - what will guide policy after 2015? This book discusses the world and development policy up to and beyond 2015.