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Who talked (and thought) about the Millennium Development Goals?
In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being adopted as the world’s shared global economic, social, and environmental agenda through 2030. They will build upon the Millennium...
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Why 17 is a beautiful number
No matter how far we travel, how much we learn, or how many amazing people we meet along the way, if we want to understand what’s going on in the world then it always pays to check in with home base....
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Finishing the last mile to end extreme poverty
Last Friday saw the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals at a special summit of the United Nations. Standing atop its exhaustive and unwieldy agenda is a singular objective: to end...
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Challenges and opportunities of providing girls education in madrassas
Since 1990, when democracy was restored in Bangladesh, the country has done a tremendous job enrolling approximately 9 million girls in school, with nearly 3 million of those girls attending school in...
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IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde on how to implement the Sustainable...
On Friday, September 25, the United Nations formally adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a set of 17 goals aimed at lowering global poverty, hunger, and inequality and...
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Measuring progress toward SDG 4 in Kenya, Zambia, and Palestine
With the sustainable development agenda recently approved the U.N. General Assembly, efforts to improve learning and outcomes around the world for the next 15 years will be led by Sustainable...
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Who pays attention to global development goals?
Do United Nations summits matter? Many people have undoubtedly asked themselves that question in recent weeks as media headlines described otherwise unlikely gatherings of world leaders and...
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An African take on the Sustainable Development Goals
A decisive triptych: FFD3 / Post-2015 / COP21 2015 is an unprecedented year for global decisionmaking. It is the culmination of three years of intergovernmental negotiations and the signing of three...
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When development economics undermines development
Some 25 years ago, as a young student, I spent three months in the Guinean (Conakry) rainforest to find out if coffee farmers in the region fulfilled the eligibility criteria for joining the “Max...
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Was 2015 a PR success for the new Global Goals?
The year 2015 was a big one for global development policy debates, marking the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the launch of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known...
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Scaling up social enterprise innovations: Approaches and lessons
In 2015 the international community agreed on a set of ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the global society, to be achieved by 2030. One of the lessons that the implementation of the...
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Finishing the last mile to end extreme poverty
Last Friday saw the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals at a special summit of the United Nations. Standing atop its exhaustive and unwieldy agenda is a singular objective: to end...
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IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde on how to implement the Sustainable...
On Friday, September 25, the United Nations formally adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a set of 17 goals aimed at lowering global poverty, hunger, and inequality and...
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Measuring progress toward SDG 4 in Kenya, Zambia, and Palestine
With the sustainable development agenda recently approved the U.N. General Assembly, efforts to improve learning and outcomes around the world for the next 15 years will be led by Sustainable...
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Who pays attention to global development goals?
Do United Nations summits matter? Many people have undoubtedly asked themselves that question in recent weeks as media headlines described otherwise unlikely gatherings of world leaders and celebrities...
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An African take on the Sustainable Development Goals
A decisive triptych: FFD3 / Post-2015 / COP21 2015 is an unprecedented year for global decisionmaking. It is the culmination of three years of intergovernmental negotiations and the signing of three...
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When development economics undermines development
Some 25 years ago, as a young student, I spent three months in the Guinean (Conakry) rainforest to find out if coffee farmers in the region fulfilled the eligibility criteria for joining the “Max...
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Was 2015 a PR success for the new Global Goals?
The year 2015 was a big one for global development policy debates, marking the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the launch of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known...
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What did Jo Cox die for?
John McArthur shares his reflections following the death of his friend and U.K. member of Parliament, Jo Cox, who was brutally murdered on June 16, 2016.
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Scaling up social enterprise innovations: Approaches and lessons
In 2015 the international community agreed on a set of ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the global society, to be achieved by 2030. One of the lessons that the implementation of the...
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