Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman also cautioned against the misuse of lending by multilateral development banks.

Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of government pullbacks. Since the establishment of the first modern ...

National Statistics Office data show six percent of maternal deaths were due to self-harm (suicide), with most cases ...

Ethiopia has unveiled a bold new strategy to transform household energy use and reduce its heavy dependence on biomass fuels through the National Clean Cooking Roadmap.The roadmap is a 3.4 billion USD ...

India breaks into the top 100 of the Sustainable Development Index for the first time. What are the key highlights of the SDR ...

The continent of Africa has the youngest population in the world which requires an increase in investment in economic and social sectors. These sectors are major providers of employment for the youth ...

News on Post-2015 development process Forum on Women’s Health and Development at UN Headquarters ...

Launched in September 2015 by the United Nations (UN) Summit in New York, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a 15-year plan grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights aimed at ...

More money will not get the SDGs on track, because they were hopelessly flawed from the start. The U.N. adopted the SDGs in 2015 as the successor to the expiring Millennium Development Goals.

Instead, the United Nations and world leaders came up with a hodge-podge, absurdly long list of 169 targets for the world to achieve from 2015-2030: the Sustainable Development Goals.

When the eight Millennium Development Goals [2] (2000 to 2015) were proclaimed by the GA on 14 December 2000, there was hope that the goals would be met. The time was right and the level of ...