CDP Publications

What is holding back the implementation of the 2030 Agenda? Insights from the CDP by Kori Udovicki One factor holding back the implementation of the SDGs is the absence of better mechanisms to help channel globally available capital and know-how to sup ...

What is holding back the implementation of the 2030 Agenda? Insights from the CDP by Marc Fleurbaey The 2030 Agenda is an impressive wish list which covers all the main issues that need to be tackled in our time. In particular, it adds the crucial sust ...

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.

What is holding back the implementation of the 2030 Agenda? Insights from the CDP by Diane Elson Development is a disruptive process. It changes people’s lives, often for the better, though it sometimes bypasses them, leaving them behind. But for too m ...

Experience has shown that it is not possible to empower people and to reduce household income inequality without addressing how incomes are generated in the production process and how this affects the so-called factor income inequality (the distribution of national income between rents from land, capital income and labour income).

CDP Policy Review No. 8 By Namsuk Kim The progress made for enabling LDCs to move toward graduation has not been successful enough. Fourteen countries have been able to meet the criteria for graduation during 2011-2020, only half way to meet the target ...

CDP Policy Review No. 7 By Namsuk Kim This paper provides an overview on the interlinkage between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievement and Least Developed Country (LDC) graduation, by examining the relationship between the indicators to be ...

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.