Many UN Development Goals Still Far Off Target, Experts Say (Al Jazeera)

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“One of the great things about the MDGs was the messaging power. You could name all the goals,” said Casey Dunning, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, D.C. “With 17 goals, that messaging power is diminished. It will be impossible for a country to take a list of 169 targets and even know where to start.”

Dunning is supportive of the differences between the MDGs and the SDGs, but she added, “There is a way to go to pare down the agenda.”

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