Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of annexes, tables, figures and box
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Acronyms
1 Exploring the post-2015 development agenda from Southern perspectives
Why Southern Voice
From concept to practice
Distinguishing features of the Southern Voice perspective
Overview of the volume
Looking ahead
Overarching issues of the post-2015 agenda
2 The post-2015 development agenda: favourable enough to Africans?
Introduction
Data and methods
Results and discussions
Conclusions.

3 Alternatives for development or alternatives to development?
Introduction
Theoretical framework
Instruments for the concepts of development and Good Living
Analysis
Conclusions
Sustainability and growth
4 Growth within natural limits: the debates, propositions and possibilities
Introduction
The need for transformation and a new development model
Growth models vs. growth within natural limits
Building a conceptual framework
The SDGs against the growth within natural limits framework
Conclusions.

5 Sustainable energy access for all: building sustainability into universal energy access
Introduction
Universal energy access in the SE4ALL framework
Sustainability of an electrical energy system
Sustainable access for the global South
Incorporating sustainability into universal energy access
Conclusion
6 Carbon emission, energy consumption, deforestation and agricultural income in LDCs: lessons for post-2015 development agenda
Introduction
Review of literature
Model, data and econometric methodology
Empirical results
Lessons for shaping the post-2015 agenda.

7 Is the current booming growth in Africa worth celebrating? some evidence from Tanzania
Introduction
Methodology
Growth and poverty: a theoretical construct
Booming growth in Africa and poverty: the case of Tanzania
State of the manufacturing sector in Tanzania: looking beyond the slow growth
Conclusion and recommendations
Inclusion and social policies
8 Role of social exclusion in human development of excluded groups
Introduction
Progress in human development in India: positive improvement for all, but at lower rate for excluded groups.

Higher levels of human poverty and inter-group disparities persist in human development
Causes of slow progress in human development among the excluded groups
Policy implications
9 Social protection and the MDGs in Sri Lanka: implications for the post-2015 agenda
Introduction
The social protection system in Sri Lanka
MDGs and social protection in Sri Lanka
Conclusions, emerging issues and implications for the post-2015 agenda
10 Measuring of progress of decent work to support the MDGs and post-MDGs
Conceptual framework
Measurement of decent work in Guatemala.