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Kathmandu sparks momentum on smart, green cities and the SDGs
By David L. CapraraSmart and green cities will be needed to win the battle against climate change. They will also play a key role in meeting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030....
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How many people will the world leave behind?
By Homi Kharas, John McArthur, Krista RasmussenDo the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) matter for real people? In 2015, at the United Nations, all countries agreed on the set of ambitious economic,...
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Why child care is essential to young mothers’ education in Jamaica
By Dasmine KennedyReintegrating school-aged mothers into formal schooling is met with many challenges for low-income families in Jamaica. While there is progress in getting girls back into classrooms...
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Education for fragile states
By Homi Kharas, Rebecca WinthropThis week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will release its annual Goalkeepers report card assessing progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Among...
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Tracking private finance to meet the Sustainable Development Goals
By George Ingram, Sally PaxtonThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set ambitious targets to eradicate poverty and advance development by 2030. Paying for these ambitions is steep—shifting from...
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Figures of the week: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals in...
By Dhruv GandhiLast week, the World Bank released preliminary results from an upcoming report that finds that the world as a whole is not on track to meet the 2030 U.N. Sustainable Development Goal on...
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The new dynamics of global energy and climate: A conversation with CEO of...
On November 19, the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate will host Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte in discussion with Initiative Co-Chair David G. Victor on sustainable...
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We need breakthrough technologies to reach the Sustainable Development Goal...
By Gavin Yamey, Alexander GunnSustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3—ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all—is accompanied by a very ambitious set of targets. These include ending...
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World Food Day 2018: The elusive quest to end hunger
By Homi Kharas, Lorenz NoeOctober 16 is World Food Day 2018. It celebrates the founding of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization 73 years ago. This U.N.-sponsored “day” is an...
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3 insights on child survival
By John McArthur, Krista RasmussenSometimes even the world’s biggest challenges come with their own silver lining of hope. Recent U.N. data show that 5.4 million children under five died last year,...
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Cities on the world stage: Using the SDGs as a ‘north star’
By John McArthur, Anthony F. Pipa
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Annotated Bibliography: Transparency, accountability, and participation along...
By Norman Eisen, Daniel Kaufmann, Nathaniel HellerThe Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption project (LTRC) is pleased to share an annotated bibliography (AB) of more than 150 books, papers,...
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US cities in pursuit of viable futures: Taking on the Sustainable Development...
With political divisions on the rise and global cooperation imperiled, city officials worldwide are stepping up to lead, solving local problems while sharing solutions and innovations across borders....
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Monitoring for 21st century skills
By Hoda Jaberian, Alvin Vista, Esther CareIn developing the Education 2030 Agenda, it became clear that education systems require solutions to help prepare students for the challenges of today’s world....
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Can US cities help the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
By Anthony F. PipaDespite a crisis of confidence at the national level, a significant majority of Americans still believe in the ability of their local governments to deliver. This is good news,...
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3 big societal problems to fix in 2019
By John McArthur2018 will go down in the record books as one of seemingly incessant geopolitical acrimony. For many policymakers, the imminent turn of the calendar offers brief respite—a moment to...
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Leave no one behind: From development slogan to policy practice
By Geoffrey Gertz, Homi KharasArguably the most radical aspect of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—and what most distinguishes today’s development doctrine from that of earlier...
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From one to many: Cash transfer debates in ending extreme poverty
By George Ingram, John McArthurAmid a growing body of research on the effects of cash transfers (e.g., see recent summaries here, here, and here), greater attention is needed to flesh out what roles...
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