Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand Management
Collective vs. Individual Rights
A Brief History of the SDGs

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A Brief History of the SDGs

This chapter presents the origins of the SDGs, how they arose and why? The chapter conveys the core idea that clear goal-setting is essential for progress and examines the process through which the SDGs were established. Dr. Sachs begins a discussion of historic development by reaching back several decades to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) to the Millennium Development Goals to the present.

A Brief History of the SDGs
Roots of Gender Inequality
Collective vs. Individual Rights

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Collective vs. Individual Rights

International human rights law focuses on the rights of individuals, and emphasis is on the protection of the individuals inherent dignity and worth. Collective discrimination is the root of a lot of inequality, however, and tools in law are skewed towards understanding the rights of the individual. Initially, there were three separate categories, or generations, of rights that are now considered obsolete: civil and political as the first; economic, social, and cultural rights as the second;…

Collective vs. Individual Rights
The Gender Agenda in the UN Human Rights Framework
Roots of Gender Inequality

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Roots of Gender Inequality

Gender inequality has its roots in differences between men and women in society. These result from social constructions of relations, which in turn stem from sexual divisions of labor rooted in biological differences between the genders, such as the ability to breastfeed. Women’s roles are valued less economically, and women also often have limited mobility and are confined to the domestic sphere. Women often experience many types of discrimination–including social,…

Roots of Gender Inequality
Attacking Gender Inequality within Development
The Gender Agenda in the UN Human Rights Framework

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The Gender Agenda in the UN Human Rights Framework

The terms “sexual” and “sexual abuse” were avoided at the inter-governmental level until 1999 with the Convention of the Rights of the Child and provisions related to Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation. Since then, sexual rights issues have been mandates by the political processes of the Human Rights Council. Now, civil society is using political bodies to introduce matters that states don’t want to codify at any price. The political mechanism of states…

The Gender Agenda in the UN Human Rights Framework
Is Sustainable Development Feasible?
Attacking Gender Inequality within Development

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Attacking Gender Inequality within Development

Gender wasn’t on the development agenda until the 1970s. At that time, it was recognized that development could harm women as modernization brings increased specialization to the labor market. Men move into more diverse, well-paid jobs than women due to mobility issues. A school of thought called Women in Development (WID) was created with the notion that we need to include women in the development process. Later, a new school of thought–Gender and Development (GAD)–was…

Attacking Gender Inequality within Development
The Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development
Is Sustainable Development Feasible?

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Is Sustainable Development Feasible?

This lecture explores the timeline of the Sustainable Development Goals and the challenges that the SDGs aim to tackle as they relate to the current issues of climate change.

Is Sustainable Development Feasible?
Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships
The Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development

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The Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development

This lecture talks about higher education as an issue beyond human capital and its role in sustainable development.

The Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development
Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand Management
Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships

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Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses how the SDGs require the creation of public-private partnerships to deploy technology to achieve the goals and transformations, using the example of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. He ends with a recommendation to the business and policy communities to examine cases for financing of public-private partnerships.

Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships
A Brief History of the SDGs
Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand Management

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Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand Management

This chapter mentions three problems with stimulus policies. First, it may not be so easy to raise aggregate demand using the specific policy tools that government has, and examples are give of tax cuts and increased government consumption (among others). Second, the upward-sloping aggregate supply schedule may actually be vertical, complicating government attempts to shift aggregate demand. Third, the long-term consequences associated with a stabilization policy will have an impact on…

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