Sustainable Development Goals

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WORKING PAPERS
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal Zero Targets: What Could We Do? - Working Paper 472
Charles Kenny
and
Mallika Snyder
December 13, 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious set of targets for global development progress by 2030 that were agreed by the United Nations in 2015. A review of the literature on meeting "zero targets" suggests very high costs compared to available resources, but also that in many cas...
ESSAYS
Billions to Trillions? Issues on the Role of Development Banks in Mobilizing Private Finance
Nancy Lee
November 17, 2017
It is time to take a fresh look at the PSWs and to ask some basic questions about their role and instruments. The aim of this essay is to raise issues that need to be addressed as we think about how PSWs should evolve and adapt to meet the formidable challenges ahead. These questions and the answers...
WORKING PAPERS
Estimating the SDGs' Demand for Innovation - Working Paper 469
Charles Kenny
and
Dev Patel
October 26, 2017
How much innovation will be needed to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals? Our results suggest that (i) best performers are considerably outperforming the average performance at a given income level, suggesting considerable progress could be achieved through policy change bu...
Blog Post
Solving the Private Sector Aid Imbroglio
Paddy Carter
October 02, 2017
In 2014, Mark Lowcock, then head of the UK’s Department for International Development, pulled off an unexpected coup: securing an agreement between donor governments on new rules for counting official loans as aid. Some neat diplomatic footwork is needed again now, because negotiatio...
CGD NOTES
Solving the Private Sector Imbroglio
Paddy Carter
October 02, 2017
Disagreement over how investments in the private sector are counting to aid is threatening to overwhelm the OECD Development Assistance Committee. There are no perfect solutions here; governments must find the least-bad compromise. We point the way forward.
Blog Post
A Global Burden of Disease Data Plus Model to Inform Domestic Decision-Making: In Search of Super-local Data
Kalipso Chalkidou
September 27, 2017
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) country rankings can strengthen the case of advocates at global and national levels for prioritising investment towards the major drivers of mortality and morbidity. But as discussed in our earlier blog post, when it comes to informing specific investment cases wi...
Blog Post
Measuring Progress towards Health SDGs: Great Effort, More Needed
Kalipso Chalkidou
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Amanda Glassman
September 26, 2017
Earlier this month, the first analysis of countries’ progress towards attaining the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was published in the Lancet. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) used Global Burden of Disease Data (GBD 2016) to create an index for ...