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abstract: 'The expansion of middle-income countries in the global South is now
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widely acknowledged as significant for international development
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research and practice. But, as yet, scholars have not fully considered
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how middle-income countries are responding to the new global goals on
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international development (the Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs)
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outlined in Agenda 2030. Equally, insufficient attention has been paid
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to how - if at all - the SDGs shape domestic development policies and
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practices in middle income countries. We ask these questions in Ecuador,
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a country that recently moved from being a lower middle income and donor
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dependent country to a more autonomous higher middle-income country with
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the capacity to promote its own national domestic development approach,
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Buen Vivir (in English: living well). Deploying a qualitative case study
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methodology and drawing primarily on in-depth semi-structured interviews
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conducted with policy makers working in Ecuador''s national government
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and in the capital Quito, we show that policy makers'' engagement with
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the SDGs is selective, with an emphasis on those goals and targets which
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are considered of domestic importance. Both the national government and
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Quito''s local government are currently focussing mainly on SDGs 10.2
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(breaking inequalities) and 11 (inclusive cities). We demonstrate that,
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in practice, how policy makers understand implementation of these
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``priority{''''} goals is not consistent; it depends on political
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preferences, where policy makers are located in the architecture of
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decentralised governance and the context-specific challenges they face.
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Evidence from Ecuador suggests that the SDGs cannot be understood as a
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single coherent template for development that states will simply adopt.
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Rather they should be analysed in the context of a rapidly changing
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architecture of global power, shaped by the context-specific nature of
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national development challenges and national political structures,
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including decentralisation. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier
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Ltd.'
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affiliation: 'Horn, P (Corresponding Author), Univ Sheffield, Sheffield, S Yorkshire,
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England.
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Horn, Philipp, Univ Sheffield, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, England.
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Grugel, Jean, Univ York, York, N Yorkshire, England.'
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author: Horn, Philipp and Grugel, Jean
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author-email: 'p.horn@sheffield.ac.uk
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Jean.grugel@york.ac.uk'
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author_list:
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- family: Horn
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given: Philipp
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- family: Grugel
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given: Jean
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.04.005
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files: []
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issn: 0305-750X
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journal: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
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keywords: 'Sustainable Development Goals; Middle-income countries;
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Decentralisation; Ecuador; SDGs 11 \& 10.2; Quito'
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keywords-plus: 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; GLOBAL
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GOVERNANCE; POLITICAL-ECONOMY; POLICY; CHINA; AID; MOVEMENTS; RIGHTS;
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WORLD'
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language: English
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month: SEP
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number-of-cited-references: '91'
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orcid-numbers: Horn, Philipp/0000-0002-4122-4866
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pages: 73-84
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papis_id: 39f42b59da6576c88a6009aadf6000c4
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ref: Horn2018sdgsmiddleincome
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times-cited: '61'
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title: 'The SDGs in middle-income countries: Setting or serving domestic development
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agendas? Evidence from Ecuador'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000436915700006
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '34'
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volume: '109'
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web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
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year: '2018'
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