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How successful were the Millennium Development Goals?
Did the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) make any difference? Perhaps no question is more important for assessing the results of global policy cooperation between 2000 and 2015. But...
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Africa in 2017: Innovation, employment, and governance
Amadou Sy, senior fellow and director of the Africa Growth Initiative, and Witney Schneidman, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and senior international advisor for Africa at Covington &...
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Middle class prosperity can save the planet
“The best things in life are free,” says the old song. When it comes to the global commons – clean air, healthy oceans, conservation of diverse species – this is no longer true. We’ve abused the great...
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Les pays exportateurs de pétrole en Afrique subsaharienne
Alors que les perspectives d’avenir demeurent encourageantes pour un grand nombre de pays d’Afrique subsaharienne, combien les choses ont changé pour les pays exportateurs de pétrole ![1] Avant 2014,...
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Tackling the ‘Water Problem’: Challenges facing U.S. regulation,...
Climate impacts on water are felt at every corner of the globe. From drought in California and a shrinking Colorado River to limited access to safe and clean drinking water in emerging economies,...
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Figures of the week: Human development progress in Africa and globally
This week the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched its 2016 Human Development Report entitled Human Development for Everyone. The report takes stock of the global progress toward meeting...
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The role of the private sector in global sustainable development
In 2015, all 193 countries signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, setting a broad and bold agenda for reducing poverty, promoting inclusive prosperity, and...
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Rethinking how to reduce state fragility
In January, the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and World Vision convened two dozen experts to explore how to approach state fragility. Fragile states, or countries...
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The SDGs need business, business needs the SDGs
The 2015 International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa was noteworthy in its charge that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need the business community—the new set of...
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Teaching for the 21st century: Broader skills for global citizens
Guest interviewer Esther Care, senior fellow in the Center for Universal Education, discusses with Ramya Vivekanandan, program specialist at UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, and Sean...
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WATCH: The role of the private sector in global sustainable development
“The development activities of civil society and the public sector are critical but not sufficient,” Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, chair of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, told an...
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Figure of the week: Manufacturing value added in sub-Saharan Africa
By Christina GolubskiLast week, the World Bank released its 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is an interactive data visualization meant to demonstrate and guide the reader...
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Targeting G20 investments in agriculture to end rural hunger
By Homi Kharas, Ashok Gulati, Joachim von Braun
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