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LIVE WEBCAST -- Promoting Shared Societies: Inclusion in the Post-2015...
Event InformationFebruary 7, 201410:00 AM - 11:30 AM ESTFalk AuditoriumBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20036This event has reached capacity for in-person attendance....
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Global Partnership Ministerial in Mexico City
There is a natural link between the post-2015 United Nations development goals process and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation ministerial meeting that will take place in...
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Women in Development
Every so often, we have an “international day” to focus attention on something we otherwise take for granted (or forget). So we have days to remind us of the importance of thinking about happiness,...
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The Critical Voice of Youth in Education Advocacy and Global Citizenship
Last week, at the Countdown to 2015 Summit in Washington, DC, “The Education We Want: An Advocacy Toolkit” was launched, featuring real-life stories of youth who have successfully advocated for...
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Youth Speak Out on Education Goals in the Post-2015 Agenda
This week in Colombo, Sri Lanka, over 1,500 people are convening from around the world for the World Conference on Youth. Over half of attendees will be young people themselves, and all will share...
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Is the Global Partnership for Education Ready for Takeoff?
This week more than 600 delegates, including over 50 government ministers, donor agencies, civil society and the private sector are descending on Brussels to cast their vote of support for the Global...
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The Trade Facilitation Agreement: An Opportunity to Bolster the Aid for Trade...
The 45 non-oil Least Developed Countries (LDCs), mostly African countries, are continuing to lose market share in world exports. For them, and for many developing countries, the World Trade...
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The New Deal: A Framework for Moving Beyond Fragility
Editor's Note: In this blog, George Ingram discusses the key elements of the New Deal. For a more detailed assessment of its implementation, read this latest paper, Implementing the New Deal for...
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Implementing the New Deal for Fragile States
It has been nearly three years since the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States (“the New Deal”) was endorsed at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in 2011. Given the minimal...
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The Need for Quality in the Post-2015 Education Agenda
Editor's Note: This blog is a guest contribution from Gabriel Sanchez-Zinny and James McBride, who participated in a Brookings roundtable discussion on the post-2015 education agenda on July 29,...
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Five Hundred Days Remain to Achieve Our Goal of Universal Primary Education
There are fewer than 500 days before the world reaches its deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. These goals contain a set of targets agreed to by world leaders in 2000 to eradicate...
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Tackling the “Zero Hunger Challenge” by 2030: A Conversation with Robert Zeigler
Event Information September 25, 2014 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EDTSaul/Zilkha Rooms Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event As the United Nations...
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The Poverty of Poverty Data
Earlier this week, the World Bank published its latest estimate of global poverty, reporting that 1.01 billion people lived under $1.25 a day in 2011. Such estimates typically receive a good deal of...
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Three Breakthrough Agreements Will Underpin the Post-2015 Global Agenda
Last week U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued his long-awaited report, “The Road to Dignity by 2030.” The report frames the beginning of the end-game for negotiations in 2015 on what will...
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The UN’s "Road to Dignity" Report: Fulfilling the Post-2015 Agenda and Ending...
Event Information January 13, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ESTFalk Auditorium Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 This event has reached capacity and registration is...
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The Transition from “The Developing World” to “A Developing World”
Editor Note: On January 9, Homi Kharas spoke on development in the post-2015 agenda at the Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Riga, Latvia. Watch video from the speech here. It is a great pleasure...
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The 1990 World Development Report: How Poverty Looks 25 Years Later
If a genie had popped out of my coffee cup early one morning just after I had been invited to lead the 1990 World Development Report on Poverty and offered me one wish, what would I have asked for? My...
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Nine Priority Commitments to be made at the United Nations July 2015...
The United Nations will convene a major international conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 13 to 16, 2015, to discuss financing for the post-2015 agenda on...
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Transparency at the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Launching the...
Event Information February 6, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ESTSaul/Zilkha Rooms Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event Transparency is one of the...
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The Post-2015 Agenda: A Road Map for a Developing World
Editor’s Note: This blog is adapted from January 9 remarks given by Homi Kharas at the Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Riga, Latvia, which formally kicked off the European Year for Development...
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