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What if growth had been as good for the poor as everyone else?
Research reports and studies
28 May 2015
World leaders are set to endorse an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Proposed targets aim to, among other things, eliminate extreme income poverty ($1.25 a day) by 2030 and ensure that the bottom 40% of the distribution experiences higher than average growth. Although extreme poverty has fallen considerably over the last thirty years, it persists at unacceptably high levels and inequality within many countries has risen. More equally distributed growth could reduce poverty further, in addition to having other positive spill-over effects.
Numerous projections have suggested that the world could come close to eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. However they tend to assume that growth will be shared equally by all people, regardless of where they are located in the income distribution. This report interrogates this assumption. It considers the implications of growth in which the bottom 40% of the population shares equally or more, taking a retrospective view.
Pdf: http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9655.pdf

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Means of implementation and the global partnership for sustainable development: what’s in it for emerging economies?
Research reports and studies
28 May 2015
The new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is navigating the unchartered territory of defining a workable universal development agenda that will apply to all countries. Emerging economies (EMEs) will play a pivotal role in the implementation of this new global agenda. This paper examines the position of four of the most influential EMEs – Brazil, China, India and South Africa, outlining what they stand to gain or lose from a series of issues that require global action and that are fundamental for the successful implementation of the SDGS.
We focus our analysis on six selected issues: global finance, technology transfer, trade, climate change, sustainable consumption and production and global governance.
Pdf: http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9654.pdf

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Revitalising evidence-based policy for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: lessons from existing international science partnerships
Journal articles or issues | May 2015 | Elizabeth Carabine
Science is to be included as a core aspect of the Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework, although the ways in which this will occur in practice is unclear. We address this by examining a number of existing international science mechanisms used across other…

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Exploring spaces for economic transformation in the Sustainable Development Goals
Research reports and studies | May 2015 | Yurendra Basnett, Debapriya Bhattacharya
The Sustainable Development Goals are bringing the spotlight back to economic development issues. While maintaining the social pillar and adding a focus on the environment, it is expected that the SDGs will promote economic transformation.