Development Co Operation Report 2014 Mobilising Resources For Sustainable Development

The Development Co-operation Report is the key annual reference document for statistics and analysis on trends in international aid. This year, the DCR focuses on mobilising the necessary financial resources for sustainable development.

The Development Co-operation Report (DCR) is the key annual reference document for analysis and statistics on trends in international development cooperation. Previous Reports focused on how to achieve the United Nations' series of Millennium Development Goals, which will expire in 2015. This year, the DCR focuses on how to mobilize the necessary financial resources to implement the challenges created by a post-2015 development framework. The framework for establishing future goals consists of eleven elements: Outcomes including principles underlying future goals 1. Measuring what you treasure and keeping poverty at the heart of development 2. Developing a universal measure of educational success 3. Achieving gender equality and women's empowerment 4. Integrating sustainability into development Tools for achieving existing goals and developing future goals 5. Strengthening national statistical systems 6. Building effective institutions and accountability mechanisms 7. Developing and promoting peace and statebuilding goals 8. Ensuring policy coherence for development 9. Sharing knowledge and engaging in policy dialogue and mutual learning 10. Promoting the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation 11. Measuring and monitoring development finance The Report provides recommendations on how to implement this agenda through a global and holistic approach.

Digital transformation is revolutionising economies and societies with rapid technological advances in AI, robotics and the Internet of Things. Low and middle-income countries are struggling to gain a foothold in the global digital economy in the face of limited digital capacity, skills, and fragmented global and regional rules.

When Member States of the United Nations approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, they agreed that the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets should be met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society. Governments and stakeholders negotiating the 2030 ...

"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

The face of development has changed, with diverse stakeholders involved – and implicated – in what are more and more seen as global and interlinked concerns. At the same time, there is an urgent need to mobilise unprecedented resources to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals ...

This edition explores the potential of networks and partnerships to create incentives for responsible action, as well as innovative, fit-for-purpose ways of co-ordinating the activities of diverse stakeholders. It looks at a number of existing partnerships and provides practical guidance.