Sustainable development goals : harnessing business to achieve the SDGs through finance, technology and law reform / edited by Julia Walker, Alma Pekmezovic, and Gordon Walker.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Finance, Technology and Law Reform Achieving the SDGs requires a fundamental rethink from businesses and governments across the globe. To make the ambitious goals a reality, trillions of dollars need to be harnessed to mobilise finance and accelera...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Foreword: Implementation of the SDGs; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Overview and Context; Part Two: Where Will the Money Come From? Financing the SDGs; Part Three: Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship; Part Four: Facilitating the SDGs by Legal Infrastructure Reform; Part I Overview and Context; 1 The UN and Goal Setting: From the MDGs to the SDGs; Introduction; What Is Development?; Is There a Right to Development?; Measuring Economic Development; Measuring Non-Economic Aspects of DevelopmentThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Situating the SDGs in the International Legal Framework; Theories of Development: Towards a New Theory of Sustainable Development; Economic Theories of Development; Cultural Theories of Development; Geographic Theories of Development; Institutional Theories of Development; A New Theory of Sustainable Development; Measuring Progress Towards the SDGs; Conclusions; 2 SDGs and the Role of International Financial Institutions; Introduction; Response and Implementation of the SDGs by IFIs; Project Processing and Actions Taken by IFIs to Implement the SDGs, and Responses from Other Development ActorsConclusion and Recommendations for IFIs to Meet SDG Goals and Targets; 3 Towards a New Global Narrative for the Sustainable Development Goals; Introduction; How SMART Are the SDGs?; Goals That Stretch; Goals That Inspire; Sloganising the SDGs; Towards a New Global Narrative?; Conclusion; 4 Overcoming Scarcity: The Paradox of Abundance: Harnessing Digitalisation in Financing Sustainable Development; Scarcity: The Paradox of Abundance; Financing: A Systemic Challenge; Action on System DesignDigital Financing of the SDGs; Dilemmas: Digitalisation and Dark Financing; Sizing the Prize; What Next?; Concluding Comments; Acknowledgements; Part II Where Will the Money Come From? Financing the SDGs; 5 The New Framework for Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs; Introduction; Sources of Development Finance; Domestic Public and Private Sources; Domestic Resource Mobilisation (DRM); International Public and Private Finance; The Role of International Official Development Assistance (ODA); Private Philanthropy; Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, and Investment FundsBarriers to Greater Private Investment; The Role of Private and Blended Finance in Development; The Development Impact and Risks of Blended Finance; An Overview of Blended Finance Mechanisms; Innovative Financing Tools: Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Development Impact Bonds (DIBs); Best Practices for Engaging the Private Sector; Conclusions; 6 The Contribution of the International Private Sector to a More Sustainable Future; Ready and Able to Invest; Commercial and Investment Benefits