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Conversation with Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Jessica Rawson, one of the world’s most eminent scholars of China, as they discuss Rawson’s book, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China. Listen in to learn…

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Conversation with Bruce Cumings, The Korean War

Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Professor Bruce Cumings, renowned historian and expert in East-Asian history, to discuss Cuming’s book The Korean War. Together, they discuss the factors…

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Case Study: Restoration by design in Inner Mongolia

This video presents a case study featuring a land restoration project executed by The Nature Conservancy. The project engaged with local communities in Inner Mongolia that suffer from severe land…

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Poverty reduction in East Asia

Progress in the fight against poverty has been made in the poorest large countries in Asia in the last 40 years and the pace of progress in eliminating poverty has been particularly impressive in…

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Implementing the SDGs

Preparing for Implementation: In this chapter, we will discuss how a country should prepare to implement the SDGs, which requires the complex tasks of program design, budgeting, financing, service…

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Korea's Development Standing Today by SDGs

SDG Index Dashboard for OECD Countries. Learn about the SDSN’s illustrative SDG-based scorecard on the outcome of Korea’s developmental efforts over the last 50 years or so. This video…

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The SDGs as an Integrated Response to Global Crisis

The 17 SDGs Are One Integrated System. Ministries and offices of a decentralized government constitute silos of thoughts and policies with insufficient interaction between them for integrated…

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs

In September 2015, Heads of State and Government agreed to set the world on a path towards sustainable development through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the core of…

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Leveraging Korea's Experiences

This is the concluding chapter on the SDGs and Korea’s development experience. We have seen that democracy has been serving in Korea as the major driver of Korea’s sustainable development…

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Transport-related Laws and Institutions

Laws and institutions have effectively supported many transport-related plans and systems in South Korea including national comprehensive transport plan, national transport database building, traffic…

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Transportation Investment & Financing Policy

This e-learning course is designed to cover the relationship between economic growth and transportation development in South Korea. The success of transport investment lies in securing sustainable…

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Transit-oriented Transport Policy

This E-learning course is designed to cover the relation between the Economic Growth and the Transport development in South Korea. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Financing Investment in Transport

One of the outstanding characteristics of transport system developed in South Korea is the establishment of energy-saving type system. The success factors that allowed South Korea to accomplish…

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Promoting Transit-oriented Transport Development

This E-learning course is designed to cover the relation between the Economic Growth and the Transport development in South Korea. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Applying Korea's Experience to Theory & Practice

Applying Korea’s Experience to Theory & Practice: Through top-down mobilization and bottom-up demand channeling, Korea as a nation could align and harmonize its national goals and work…

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Not Wasting a Crisis for Fundamental Reforms

Rationalization & Reform: The DJ Kim Government (1998~2002). The new government of President DJ Kim, the most progressive among the top presidential hopefuls for decades until his election,…

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