The future of development

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• Why is mental health such a low priority for the UN?

  Guardian Professional, 2 Sep 2014: With mental health issues affecting one in six, it’s time for the UN to update its development goals, say Graham Thornicroft and Vikram Patel

• Why are indigenous people left out of the sustainable development goals?

  14 Aug 2014: Jonathan Glennie: Despite promises to leave no one behind, the UN drafting committee has little to say about halting threats to their survival

• Will these sustainable development goals do the job?

  6 Aug 2014: A UN working group has devised a final draft of targets to succeed the millennium development goals. What do you think of the 17 proposals?

• Who is going to pay for international development?

  31 Jul 2014: Jonathan Glennie: The world does not need another list of financial problems and solutions. It needs a list of priorities

• From Syria to South Sudan, the need to be prepared has never been greater

  17 Jul 2014: Helen Clark: Despite overwhelming evidence that a stitch in time saves nine, aid spending on prevention and preparedness remains tiny

• New development goals need ambition – and the UK must set the agenda

  14 Jul 2014: Jim Murphy: Britain has steered groundbreaking deals before. It must do so again, setting radical goals to save as many lives as possible

• Why data and metrics are essential for future development goals to be met

  4 Jul 2014: Guido Schmidt-Traub: our report outlines the need for sustainable development goals to be monitored and measured in real time to ensure success

• Why can't we have human rights and economic growth? – podcast transcript

  2 Jul 2014: William Easterly on how he changed his mind on human rights and development

• Mind the gap: why UN development goals must tackle economic inequality

  1 Jul 2014:

  Faiza Shaheen: The sustainable development agenda is doomed without a goal to end poverty. It's time to reject the politics of the fortunate few

• Tessa Jowell leads UN call for new early years goals for children worldwide

  16 Jun 2014:

  Former Olympics minister says better medical care for mothers and babies could prevent deaths and babies being born stunted

• Sustainable development goals take shape as UN party narrows focus

  4 Jun 2014: Number of proposed goals reduced from 19 to 16 as UN working group merges target areas ahead of 2015 deadline

• David Miliband's aid goals ignore evolution of humanitarian industry

  2 Jun 2014:

  Despite some valid points, the IRC president is wrong to suggest arbitrary goals while ignoring the progress already made

• Africa's rising – but poverty is stalling progress, warns IMF chief

  30 May 2014: Christine Lagarde says the continent must redouble efforts to stamp out poverty to benefit from recent economic boom

• China agrees to co-finance $2bn fund with African Development Bank

  27 May 2014: Decision to create multilateral 10-year fund follows criticism that China tends to strike one-sided agreements in Africa
  

• Development partnership conference: what did we learn?

  22 Apr 2014:

  Despite concerns about who would turn up, nearly all countries were represented and discussions were interesting and relevant

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