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While the Green Deal underscores the ‘whole of EU’ approach, it remains to be seen how the EU can adapt its external efforts to ensure a just tran

A combination of prevention, early identification, and treatment is necessary for a significant decrease in noncommunicable disease mortality

With the onset of the pandemic, the urban informal workforce in India has been hit hard by the ongoing livelihood crisis, especially women. This call

U-DISE मान्यता और गैर-मान्यता प्राप्त स्कूलों की वार्षिक गणन

South Asia has had dismal indicators for the development of children, the pandemic has only exacerbated these problems while negating most progress ma

We risk missing out on a generational opportunity to shape global development through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In a talk at ORF, Dr. Bjon Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus think tank presented a critical evaluation of the 17 SDGs and 169 associated targets.

This brief analyses the alignment between India’s development partnerships since Independence, and sustainability goals. It conducts the examination using three phases of India’s development partnerships—i.e., Phase 1, 1947-1990; Phase 2, 1991-2008; and Phase 3, post-2008—and finds that the country’s development cooperation agenda has historically incorporated objectives of sustainable growth. This pattern would continue throughout the

Sustainable development goals (SDG) can be a major enabler of business competitiveness, creating conducive business conditions.

This brief examines the contribution of the G20 in facilitating the implementation of its member countries’ sustainable development goals. It reviews the G20 priorities over the years, its informal governance mechanisms, and the progress made so far by the member countries in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The brief finds that even as the G20 has aligned its priorities and initiatives with the SDGs, the responsibility fo

In order to achieve the SDGs, it is time to re-evaluate the global patents regime. India and other developing countries need to explore policies and practices for creating a culture and system that encourages innovation.

To ensure sustained growth levels, the country requires a strong and healthy workforce – possible only when citizens are protected against health-related financial risks and can access quality health services.

A more holistic developmental paradigm that incorporates the SDG goals needs to be adopted for a resilient ad sustainable future.

While India’s malnutrition rates have dropped dramatically, the country is still home to the largest number of stunted and wasted children in the world. Owing to the cultural and geographical variance across states, combatting malnutrition requires a granular approach. POSHAN Abhiyaan, the government’s national nutrition mission launched in 2017, aims to provide a convergence mechanism for the country’s response to malnutrition. This specia

There is a need to look beyond the use and conservation of resources by re-imagining cities as vibrant socio-cultural systems of people and communitie

Having the two parallel approaches of multistakeholderism and multilateralism cannot produce optimum results, the need is to holistically combine both

Goal seven of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) commits the international community to providing access to clean cooking fuels and technologies to all by 2030. Progress has been slow, however, and in about 40 of the UN’s 189 member countries for which data is available, more that 80 percent of the populations continue to lack such access. Using case studies, this brief analyses the role of a country’s policies, i

At least 4 billion people around the world are yet to be covered by any form of social security, and therefore vulnerable to economic, social, and environmental shocks. This paper examines the state of social security in the Group of Twenty (G20) economies—home to 63 percent of the global population. It finds gaps in social security financing in these countries: between universal coverage and actual coverage, and between countries of the Global

This paper creates an index to track the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation) across India’s states. The SDG 6 index incorporates both supply-side indicators and demand management variables, as well as institutional interventions. In this paper, state-wise indices are constructed to identify their respective performances in the domains of access to clean water and provision of sanitation facilitie

Triangular partnerships can provide solutions to the most pressing challenges of today and play an important role in achieving the SDGs

त्रिकोणीय साझेदारियां ना सिर्फ़ आज के दौर की प्रमुख चुनौ

The crisis in the South Asian neighbourhood is quite alarming, but India stands as a bright star in the region and on the global stage, despite inflat

UNSC 21 व्या शतकातील भू-राजकीय वास्तविकता प्रतिबिंबित करते याची खात्री करण्यासाठी ग्लोबल साउथमधील देशांचे मोठे प्रतिनिधित्व आवश्यक आहे.

Acknowledging health as a central component of urban planning and governance will help achieve health SDGs and ensure policy coherence.

The need and desire for urban resilience is firmly established. It is time for actual actions.

As India completes 76 years of achieving independence, its emergence as a pivotal development partner has kickstarted a gradual revolution in global d

The issue of valuing water is contentious because of its physical, political and economic dimensions. Yet, it is an important debate, as valuation is key in estimating the benefits and costs of different management options. An effective valuation supports better informed decision-making in the allocation and use of the resource, as well as in the implementation of SDG6, i.e. to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanita

Institutions with credible commitments do not have to be created by the central government alone. They can also be developed in cooperation between id

Only by recognising the intrinsic value of water and its central role in our existence can we hope to build a more resilient and food-secure world for

“Water for all” remains a distant dream in many Indian cities. Greater efforts by government agencies and citizens would be required to achieve th

There is hardly any doubt that failing health systems result in poor health outcomes and hamper progress towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In Africa, health systems are hobbled by leadership and governance challenges, extreme shortages of health workers, corruption in procurement systems for medical products and technologies, poor information systems, and health financing const

As India's Presidency of the G20 ends and the baton passes to Brazil, we evaluate the successes of the past year culminating in the New Delhi Leaders'

'Power to All’ was a great goal set by the Prime Minister. However, whether he will have the ‘saubhagya’ to capitalise on the success of the scheme for an election upside will be clear from the results.