SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

The Sustainable Deve?lop?ment Goals (SDGs) have registered some progress since their adoption in 2015. However, gathering storms of weakening global economic growth, rising income inequality, unabated global warming and climate change, and escalating conflict are impeding SDG implementation. The tailwinds of rapid technological advances, on the other hand, offer best hope for accelerating SDG progress.

The Sustainable Deve?lop?ment Goals (SDGs) have registered some progress since their adoption in 2015. However, gathering storms of weakening global economic growth, rising income inequality, unabated global warming and climate change, and escalating conflict are impeding SDG implementation. The tailwinds of rapid technological advances, on the other hand, offer best hope for accelerating SDG progress.

The Sustainable Deve?lop?ment Goals (SDGs) have registered some progress since their adoption in 2015. However, gathering storms of weakening global economic growth, rising income inequality, unabated global warming and climate change, and escalating conflict are impeding SDG implementation. The tailwinds of rapid technological advances, on the other hand, offer best hope for accelerating SDG progress.

The global commodity price shock of 2014-2016 has caused setbacks in the fight against poverty; poverty eradication in Africa by 2030 is increasingly becoming out of reach; the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is exacerbating the poverty situation

Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (A/74/264)

The severity of plastic pollution is now well-recognized, and countries and communities are looking for innovative solutions for addressing this menace of the modern age.

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Op-Ed by Daniel Gay and Kevin Gallagher Few would deny that the international system governing the environment and economy is under pressure. Globalisation itself is wobbling, to the chagrin of governments in rich and emerging economies. What's less

Kori Udovicki highlights the insufficiency of mechanisms to channel capital and know-how to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).