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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia Key Policy Priorities and Implementation Challenges

By: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Delhi United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 2017Description: 38p.ISBN: 9789210606219.Subject(s): SDGsOnline resources: Click here to access online Summary: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia: Key Policy Priorities and Implementation Challenges seeks to unpack the 2030 Agenda at the subregional level and offer tangible means to mainstream the SDGs into national development plans and programmes. The Report outlines seven key policy priorities to fast-track achievement of the Goals and create the conditions for sustainable prosperity for all in South Asia, including through harnessing regional cooperation, among the Agenda’s means of implementation. Based on rigorous analysis and policy simulations, the publication demonstrates that a sustainable industrialization strategy could generate more than 56 million new jobs by 2030 in the subregion, lifting 71 million additional people out of poverty while also embracing low-carbon development pathways. Two years into the implementation of the Agenda, as countries in the subregion strive to operationalize the goals in line with national priorities, this Report is essential reading for development practitioners and policy makers in the subregion and beyond, to stimulate the debate on ways and means to bring sustainable prosperity to the 1.7 billion persons living in South Asia.[Source: UNESCAP]
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia: Key Policy Priorities and Implementation Challenges seeks to unpack the 2030 Agenda at the subregional level and offer tangible means to mainstream the SDGs into national development plans and programmes.

The Report outlines seven key policy priorities to fast-track achievement of the Goals and create the
conditions for sustainable prosperity for all in South Asia, including through harnessing regional cooperation, among the Agenda’s means of implementation.

Based on rigorous analysis and policy simulations, the publication demonstrates that a sustainable industrialization strategy could generate more than 56 million new jobs by 2030 in the subregion, lifting 71 million additional people out of poverty while also embracing low-carbon development pathways. Two years into the implementation of the Agenda, as countries in the subregion strive to operationalize the goals in line with national priorities, this Report is essential reading for development practitioners and policy makers in the subregion and beyond, to stimulate the debate on ways and means to bring sustainable prosperity to the 1.7 billion persons living in South Asia.[Source: UNESCAP]

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