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Blog Post
April 02, 2015
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets.
Target 8.1 calls for rapid per capita economic growth. As this is a vital element of sustained progress on development, it is absolutely right that a comprehensive set of development goals include a growth target.
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Blog Post
March 27, 2015
This is the latest in a series of CGD blogs suggesting improvements to the SDG targets.
The first target of the first goal of the Sustainable Development Goals is to “eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere” by 2030. The second target is to “reduce at least by ha...
Blog Post
March 23, 2015
Imagine you are an aid agency with a new mission, set at the highest level: end world poverty. Two come to mind. How are you to achieve such a noble but audacious goal?
The first thing you’d want to do is define the target: what is meant by ‘poverty’? Perhaps ...