It is very difficult to know what exactly is promised, how governments should interpret it, let alone how it will be monitored or evaluated.

Specifically, we have set low and high values of a DALY at $1,000 and $5,000,

Indeed, as the Conclusion, written by an Eminent Panel including Nobel laureate economists, reveals, the UN could achieve four times more good if it sharpened the 169 targets to a list of just 19 “phenomenal” investments.

We can’t do it all. The cost of meeting all

given the unavoidable distortions of having to assume, first, that interventions at a given global scale encounter the same unit costs

2015, the United Nations negotiated one of the world’s most powerful policy documents. Over 15 years, it will influence more than $2.5 trillion of development aid along with trillions from national budgets.

spillovers that range from lower fertility to higher civic engagement and from improvements in institutional quality to women’s empowerment and economy-wide innovation.

the Sustainable Development Goals would be between USD$3.3 and $4.5 trillion annually according to the OECD,37 while

In 2015, the United Nations negotiated one of the world’s most powerful policy documents. Over 15 years, it will influence more than $2.5 trillion of development aid along with trillions from national budgets.