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SDGs, Agenda 2030 and the prospects for transformative social policy and social development

This special issue of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy has its origins in a workshop convened by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) within the context of the International Social Sciences Council’s third World Social Sciences Forum on Transforming Global Relations for a Just World held in Durban, South Africa, September 2015. That workshop, entitled Global Justice and Poverty in the Transformation of MDGs into SDGs sought to evaluate the SDGs through the lenses of global justice. At the same time it addressed the effectiveness of the mechanisms of institutional accountability at both national and international level for the realisation of the goals and targets in practice. The presentations made at that conference have been revised for this special issue into critical commentaries and opinion pieces as early responses to the SDG developments, in order to provoke further debate among social policy and social development scholars about their adequacy and effectiveness as a framework for increasing global social justice. When the Agenda 2030 (UN 2015) encapsulating the new SDG goals and targets were agreed Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (2015) commented that ‘a rare sense of euphoria permeated’ their adoption in New York.