Sustainable Development Goals

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Tax Revenues in Africa Will be Insufficient to Finance Development Goals
Sanjeev Gupta
and
Jianhong Liu
March 10, 2020
The IMF estimates that on average, low-income countries (LIC) will need additional resources amounting to 15.4 percent of GDP to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education, health, roads, electricity, and water by 2030. These resource requirements are even greater in sub-Saharan A...
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With Ten Years to the SDG Finish Line, Laws Need to Change for Gender Equality
Megan O'Donnell
and
Charles Kenny
January 13, 2020
We’re a third of the way through the lifetime of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were set to transform the world by 2030. But when it comes to SDG 5 on gender equality, global progress towards targets remains either unmeasured or too slow.
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The Stretch Fund
Nancy Lee
and
Dan Preston
December 04, 2019
When the world adopted the SDGs, policymakers knew that aid alone would never meet the financing needs. They embraced the “billions to trillions” vision, believing that an abundance of commercially viable SDG-related investments was ready and waiting for trillions in profitable private i...
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Introducing the "Stretch Fund"
Nancy Lee
and
Dan Preston
December 04, 2019
We need a new public-private actor to fill the gap in the development finance architechure. Nancy Lee and Dan Preson have a solution: The Stretch Fund.