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Sustainable Development Goals

Tom White

1st June 2015

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When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000 they seemed hopelessly optimistic. But the most important one was achieved five years early. This was to halve, by 2015, the share of people globally living on under $1.25 a day, which was 36% in 1990. What should be the new Sustainable Development Goals that are to run from 2015-30?

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