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Building the SDG Economy: Needs, Spending, and Financing for Universal Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

Posted Dec 03, 2019 |  by Global Economy and Development, Brookings, Homi Kharas, John McArthur

SDG financing seeks to ensure that the right combination of resources is available in the right places at the right time to solve real-world challenges – the deprivation of basic human needs, obesity-induced non-communicable disease, species loss from land and oceans, and dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper for Global... Read More

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New Estimates of EU Agricultural Support - An “Un-Common” Agricultural Policy

Posted on Dec 03, 2019 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Center for Global Development, Ian Mitchell, Arthur Baker

The EU’s agricultural support to member states constitutes a barrier to development in Africa and elsewhere. Support levels are known to vary by member, and to be high in international...  Read More

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Reporting on Violence against Women and Girls

Posted on Dec 03, 2019 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by  UNESCO

Worldwide, nearly one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence by their intimate partners, and seven per cent have experienced sexual assault by another person. 38 per cent of...  Read More

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The Business of Building Walls

Posted on Dec 02, 2019 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by  Transnational Institute, Mark Akkerman

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is once again erecting border walls – this time in fear of refugees and migrants. Since the 1990s, EU member states and countries in...  Read More

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The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

Posted on Dec 03, 2019 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by UNU-WIDER, Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Jeremy Seekings

Since the mid-1990s there has been a transformation of poverty reduction strategies with the proliferation of social assistance programmes that entail direct cash or in-kind transfers to the...  Read More

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Bretton Woods at 75 - A Series of Critical Essays

Posted on Nov 30, 2019 | in category: Improving global governance | by Bretton Woods Project, Patrick Bond, Ana Garcia, Fabrina Furtado et al

In this publication by the Bretton Woods Project, Patrick Bond, Ana Garcia, Fabrina Furtado et al challenge the notion that the World Bank and IMF have promoted progress and poverty reduction...  Read More

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World Trade Report 2019 - The Future of Services Trade

Posted on Dec 02, 2019 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by World Trade Organisation

Services have become the most dynamic component of global trade, with a growing role in the global economy. Yet the extent of services’ contribution to global trade is not well understood....  Read More

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