Politics stands in the way of development goals
Berkeley
THERE are 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to tackle problems including poverty, hunger, disease, inequality, climate change, ecological degradation and many others in between. Clearly, 17 is a number too many. As Frederick the Great supposedly said: "He who defends everything defends nothing." Similarly, those who emphasise everything emphasise nothing.
This points to the problem of forging goals through consensus: they can end up being a wish list for everything short of heaven on Earth. But to be effecti…
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