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Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems
much less visible in international development. However, this book
demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences,
and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international
community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development
cooperation.
A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
by 2030. All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in
September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen ""Sustainable
Development Goals,"" to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals-in
such areas as education and health car -is laudable in and of
itself, and governments and organizations are working hard on them.
But so far there is no overall, positive agenda of what new things
need to be done to ensure the goals are achieved across all
nations. In a search of fresh approaches to the longstanding
problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals, the Japan
International Cooperation Agency and the Global Economy and
Development program at Brookings mounted a collaborative research
effort to advance implementation of Agenda 2030. This edited volume
is the product of that effort. The book approaches the UN's goals
through three broad lenses. The first considers new approaches to
capturing value. Examples include Nigeria's first green bonds,
practical methods to expand women's economic opportunities,
benchmarking to reflect business contributions to achieving the
goals, new incentives for investment in infrastructure, and
educational systems that promote cross-sector problem solving. The
second lens entails new approaches to targeting places, including
oceans, rural areas, fast-growing developing cities, and the
interlocking challenge of data systems, including geospatial
information generated by satellites. The third lens focuses on
updating governance, broadly defined. Issues include how civil
society can align with the SDG challenge; how an advanced economy
like Canada can approach the goals at home and abroad; what needs
to be done to foster new approaches for managing the global
commons; and how can multilateral institutions for health and
development finance evolve.
"Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in
reducing extreme poverty-defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty
line-over the past three decades. This success has sparked renewed
enthusiasm about the possibility of eradicating extreme poverty
within a generation. However, progress is expected to become more
difficult, and slower, over time. This book will examine three
central changes that need to be overcome in traveling the last
mile: breaking cycles of conflict, supporting inclusive growth, and
managing shocks and risks. By uncovering new evidence and
identifying new ideas and solutions for spurring peace, jobs, and
resilience in poor countries, The Last Mile in Ending Extreme
Poverty will outline an agenda to inform poverty reduction
strategies for governments, donors, charities, and foundations
around the world. Contents Part I: Peace: Breaking the Cycle of
Conflict External finance for state and peace building, Marcus
Manuel and Alistair McKechnie, Overseas Development Institute
Reforming international cooperation to improve the sustainability
of peace, Bruce Jones, Brookings and New York University Bridging
state and local communities through livelihood improvements,
Ryutaro Murotani, JICA, and Yoichi Mine, JICA-RI and Doshisha
University Postconflict trajectories and the potential for poverty
reduction, Gary Milante, SIPRI Part II: Jobs: Supporting Inclusive
Growth Structural change and Africa's poverty puzzle, John Page,
Brookings Public goods for private jobs: lessons from the Pacific,
Shane Evans, Michael Carnahan and Alice Steele, Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of Australia Strategies for
inclusive development in agrarian Sub-Saharan countries, Akio
Hosono, JICA-RI The role of agriculture in poverty reduction, John
McArthur, Brookings, UN Foundation, and Fung Global Institute Part
III: Resilience: Managing Shocks and Risks Environmental stress and
conflict, Stephen Smith, George Washington University and Brookings
Toward community resilience: The role of social capital after
disasters, Go Shimada, JICA-RI Social protection and the end of
extreme poverty, Raj Desai, Georgetown University and Brookings "
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