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International Financial Institutions Back New Global Development Agenda with Stepped-Up Support

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Global CEOs sign on to new UN goals at United Nations Private Sector Forum

More than 300 CEOs, Heads of State, UN and civil society leaders attended the United Nations Private Sector Forum (PSF) on 26 September to discuss the role of business in implementing the world's 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Only a Fundamental Reversal Of Economic Policy Can Solve the Refugee Crisis

In these stormy days in world politics there are two fundamentally different types of political and financial policy leaders: those guided by an optimistic image of man, who put forward a clear vision for the future of mankind, and those whose...

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New Global Goals cannot be achieved without ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment – UN chief

As world leaders continued their Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals, UN Women and China co-hosted a landmark event on 27 September on gender equality and women’s empowerment at which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared that the new Global...

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