Financing The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

As the sun begins to set on the United Nations’ 15-year Millennium Development Goals, the international development community is rallying around a set of new Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) to be decided at this year’s UN General Assembly, as well as a financial framework that will guide how to fund and finance those goals. As a result, a bevy of policies, recommendations, and analyses have cropped up. Conversations are swirling around reforms on remittance flows, restructuring of tax systems, targets for domestic resource mobilization, and so on. All arrows point to raising more capital for development agendas in order to meet the aspirational SDGs.