CDP Background Paper series

The third annual review of the VNRs by the CDP providing a systematic content analysis of the VNRs presented to the HLPF.

The paper analyses how countries addressed leaving no one behind, pursuing global partnership as means of implementation and SDG 4 on quality education in the VNRs submitted in 2018.

The paper offers critical perspectives on the SDGs targets with a discussion on the economic challenges as well as the opportunities for trade and entrepreneurship.

This paper aims to explain the politics that led to the term ‘leaving no one behind’ as a core theme of the 2030 Agenda.

The paper analyses how countries addressed leaving no one behind, addressing trade-offs through policy integration and pursuing global partnership as means of implementation in the VNRs submitted in 2017.

The paper examines globalization’s effects on those left behind in both industrial and emerging markets.

This paper provides an overview of the conceptual and empirical issues involved in the overarching goal of “leaving no one behind”.

This paper discusses examples of people not only being left behind but rather being pushed behind in all parts of the world.

This paper examines one particular reading of the ideal of leaving no one behind, namely, that the very worst off should receive special, if not exclusive, priority.