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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing…
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Financing Sustainable Development

Financing Sustainable Development

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How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is not available under a…
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Conversation with Casey Michel, American…

Conversation with Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy

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Jeffrey Sachs speaks with journalist Casey Michel, author of American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History. …
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Investor Activism

Investor Activism

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses ways that investors can be civil society activists in addition to environmental, social, and governance investing. He explains…
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Transformation Challenges

Transformation Challenges

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This chapter opens with a discussion of environmental crises and the need for deep and widespread change. Dr. Sachs goes on to describe six grand transformations that…
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Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships

Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses how the SDGs require the creation of public-private partnerships to deploy technology to achieve the goals and…
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Planning and Backcasting

Planning and Backcasting

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This chapter addresses how governments can begin to think about the SDGs, how goals can be made quantifiable, and how SDG planning can be adopted into national…
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Corruption and Politics Today

Corruption and Politics Today

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Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social…

Conversation with Peter Lindert, Making Social Spending Work

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Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert discuss Prof. Lindert’s new book: Making Social Spending Work. Lindert’s new work brilliantly examines the history of…
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Capital Markets and the SDGs

Capital Markets and the SDGs

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses some of the issues of private capital financing of the SDGs, as well as the promising aspects of private capital markets to…
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New Financing Mechanisms and Global Funds

New Financing Mechanisms and Global Funds

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This chapter discusses the idea of specialized global funds that have pooled funds from government donors and philanthropic donors, focusing on the example of the Global…
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Finance and the Real Economy

Finance and the Real Economy

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In the sixth video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger differentiates finance from the real economy, and argues for a completely new…
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SDG Policy Instruments

SDG Policy Instruments

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Transformation requires more than a call to action; it also requires practical instruments to achieve goals. This chapter discusses various economic, political, and…
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Types of Financing

Types of Financing

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs addresses the multiple types of financing that can be used to finance the SDGs including bonds and bank loans, development banks,…
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Needs Assessments: Estimating Resource Needs for…

Needs Assessments: Estimating Resource Needs for the SDGs

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This chapter addresses investments in various sectors needed to achieve the SDGs, through needs assessments or costings of the sustainable development transformation.…
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A Closer Look at Official Development Assistance

A Closer Look at Official Development Assistance

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This lecture looks at one solution to the poverty trap, official development aid. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be…

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