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Tracking the sustainable development goals : emerging measurement challenges and further reflections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Serajuddin, Umar - 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to interpret as they appear on the surface. Review of the...
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Meeting the sustainable development goal for electricity access : using a multi-scenario approach to understand the cost drivers of power infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa : bey...
Nicolas, Claire; Samson, Benjamin; Rozenberg, Julie; … - 2019
This paper explores the investments needed to achieve universal access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, and the additional operation and maintenance costs these investments entail. It also explores the drivers of these costs, by exploring hundreds of scenarios that combine...
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Out-of-pocket expenditures on health : a global stocktake
Wagstaff, Adam; Eozenou, Patrick; Smitz, Marc - 2019
World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic …
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 : From World Development Indicators
2018
World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global …, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas …
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Delivering the Vision of the Millennium Development Goals
Wolfowitz, Paul - 2005
Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, remarked that the millennium development goals (MDGs) created a metric of … accountability for which humanity will hold the World Bank answerable. It also created a vital tool for measuring progress. The MDGs … Gakuba's efforts to create jobs for rural women. The World Bank is developing an Africa action plan with 25 initiatives to …
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Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
Gibson, Jim - 2018
The government of Uganda has given strong emphasis to eradicating open defecation and to encouraging people to invest in safe containment systems. Funding to local governments is spurring sanitation improvement on a significant scale. But as the pace of urbanization picks up in the country and...
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Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016 : Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change
2015 - Online-Ausg.
The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change details the progress toward the global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. Part I examines global development progress, the unfinished development...
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Atlas of sustainable development goals 2017 : from World Development Indicators
Weltbank - 2017
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the data -- Introduction -- The world by income, FY2017 -- The world by region … the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank … and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World …
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Data Deprivation: Another Deprivation to End
Serajuddin, Umar - 2015
The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of "ending extreme poverty." However, the data needed to monitor progress remain severely limited....
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Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals : Synthesis Report of the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH...
World Bank Group - 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting …
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