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The Sprint to the 2015 Development Goals: Reaching the Marginalized with...
Event InformationApril 17, 20139:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDTSaul/Zilkha RoomsBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036Register for the EventThe global community has 1,000 days...
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The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Interactive)
DownloadsDownload the full report AuthorsLaurence ChandyNatasha LedlieVeronika Penciakova
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The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Report)
Editor’s Note: An interactive feature, highlighting the key findings from this report, can be found here.Over a billion people worldwide live on less than $1.25 a day. But that number is falling. This...
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Crafting an Education Goal in the Post-2015 Development Framework: Having Our...
In the ongoing debate over learning outcomes and measurement in the lead up to the post-2015 framework, the education community risks falling victim to the old English proverb, “you can’t have your...
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Internal Displacement and Development Agendas: A Roundtable Discussion with...
Event InformationMay 14, 20139:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDTSt. Louis RoomThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DCAround the world today, there are more than 15.5 million refugees and...
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Generation MDGs: How Youth are Pushing to Reach the MDGs and Shaping the...
While the next set of global development goals are being debated around the world, those who actually will be responsible for achieving them are also voicing their concerns. As reports are being...
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Counting the Poor
IntroductionData play an important role in global efforts to end poverty. Data are relied on to determine the prevalence of poverty and its characteristics, to quantify and allocate global resources...
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Africa’s Challenge to End Extreme Poverty by 2030: Too Slow or Too Far Behind?
In a recent paper, we explored the feasibility of ending extreme poverty by 2030. Our analysis showed that meeting this goal in sub-Saharan Africa poses a particular challenge. In 1990, 56 percent of...
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Eliminate Poverty - Sustainable Development
The High-Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda and its secretariat are to be commended and thanked for its report, A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies Through...
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Great Expectations for Post-2015: An Analysis of the High-Level Panel Report
We recently outlined the post-2015 priorities voiced by many civil society and nongovernmental actors within the international education community:Equitable access to education for all children...
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Youth And The Post-2015 MDGs: Ensuring Youth Are On The Agenda
Event InformationJune 20, 201312:00 AM - 12:00 AM EDTInterAction2025 M St NW #800Washington, DC 20036On June 20, 2013 the Brookings Center for Universal Education co-hosted an event with the Alliance...
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The Private Sector in the New Global Development Agenda
This weekend, global leaders, entrepreneurs, practitioners and public intellectuals will come together at the Brookings Blum Roundtable to discuss innovative ideas and advance groundbreaking...
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A World Free of Extreme Poverty – But by Which Path?
Over the past fortnight, India analysts have vied to offer the most compelling explanation of the country’s grim economic data—slowing GDP growth and a depreciating currency—and to identify policies...
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Julia Gillard Discusses Making Education a Global Priority and Offers Advice...
Last week, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings announced that former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has joined Brookings as a nonresident senior fellow. We are very excited...
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23 Months for the World to Get Organized
At last we have a roadmap. On 25 September, at a special event of the General Assembly, UN member states established a path and process for setting the post-2015 global development agenda. After an...
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Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals: More and Better Finance Will Not Be...
Last week, I participated in a panel organized by the U.N. General Assembly Open Working Group, which is tasked with preparing a proposal on the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs will...
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Preparing African Governments for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The Millennium Development Goals conclude in just one year. As 2015 draws closer and closer, the development community, developing-country governments and African governments in particular are busy...
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Learning about Learning in 2013: An Agenda for Action in 2014
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice, and to make an end is to make a beginning. – T.S. EliotThe year 2013 was a year of much discussion about...
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Southern Perspectives on Learning and Equity in the Post-2015 Sustainable...
On December 11, the United Nations (UN) hosted the sixth session of the intergovernmental Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG). This session of the OWG served as a key opportunity...
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Catalyzing Development Revisited
In a recent op-ed in the Financial Times, Bill Easterly wrote “aid spending is a drop in the ocean of the budgets of governments that give it and the economies that receive it. Whether it works...
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