Abstract The sustainable development goals (SDGs) present a real opportunity to direct India towards a path of equality and equity. This article posits that India’s plans to achieve the millennium development goals by the end of their term in 2015 faltered because reforms designed to alleviate poverty and achieve equitable growth did not adequately address weaknesses in institutions of accountability, which undermined the reform agenda. These institutions, which include Parliament and the judiciary, exist in part to ensure that actions taken by public officials are subject to oversight so that government initiatives meet their stated objectives. As India shifts its attention to Agenda 2030, its renewed commitment to institutional reforms represents an occasion for the state to address the inequalities in income and the resulting human development concerns. For the government to achieve the SDGs, this article suggests that India must integrate what we refer to as a baseline conception of distributive justice within its plans, which can account for structural barriers to its development arising from ineffective institutions of accountability and provide the poor with a route towards individual empowerment.

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分配正义与可持续发展目标：在印度实现2030年议程

摘要可持续发展目标（SDG）提供了一个真正的机会，可以指导印度走上平等与公正的道路。本文认为，印度到2015年年底实现千年发展目标的计划步履蹒跚，因为旨在减轻贫困和实现公平增长的改革未能充分解决问责制方面的弱点，从而削弱了改革议程。这些机构，包括议会和司法机构，在一定程度上是为了确保对公职人员采取的行动进行监督，以使政府的举措达到其既定目标。随着印度将注意力转移到2030年议程上，它对机构改革的新承诺为国家解决收入不平等和由此引起的人类发展问题提供了机会。为了使政府实现可持续发展目标，本文建议印度必须将我们所称的分配正义的基本概念纳入其计划中，以解决因问责制度无效而给其发展带来的结构性障碍，并为穷人提供实现个人授权的途径。