Jeffrey Sachs

The UN Development Goals Are ‘Seriously Off Track,’ an Expert Says

August 10, 2020

The shock of the unexpected coronavirus pandemic will make it harder to achieve success on the Sustainable Development Goals, now a third of their way to the finish line, in 2030. However, the problems that have stymied or reversed progress go back long before Covid-19 hit, leading development experts say. In conjunction with a …

Covid-19, Sustainable Development Goals

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Will Statisticians Get the Last Word on the UN’s New Development Goals?

March 9, 2015

by Bill Orme

There are three things you need to know about the negotiations over the United Nations’ next set of global development goals, which will be adopted by world leaders at the General Assembly this September and remain in effect for the next 15 years: Almost everybody agrees that the proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …

Sustainable Development Goals

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WORLDVIEWS

West African Businesswomen: Stay Fearless in Your Ventures

February 17, 2014

by Rama Musa

For a half year, I published Neue Afrique, a digital newsletter that explored business developments in the Economic Community of West African States, known as Ecowas, reaching more than 1,600 diplomats, development analysts, international civil servants, institutional investors and entrepreneurs. Neue Afrique, which involved low start-up and operating costs, acted as a prelude to …