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About the Editors Notes on Contributors Foreword Mahmoud Mohieldin Foreword: Why we need to accelerate implementation of the SDGs. Rt. Hon. Helen Clark Preface Introduction Part One Overview and Context Chapter 1 The UN and Goal Setting: From the MDGs to the SDGs Alma Pekmezovic Chapter 2 SDGs and the Role of International Financial Institutions Suresh Nanwani Chapter 3 Towards a New Global Narrative for the Sustainable Development Goals? Iason Gabriel and Varun Gauri Chapter 4 Overcoming Scarcity -- the Paradox of Abundance: Harnessing Digitalisation in Financing Sustainable Development Simon Zadek Part Two Where will the money come from? Financing the SDGs Chapter 5 The New Framework for Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs Alma Pekmezovic Chapter 6 The Contribution of the International Private Sector to a more Sustainable Future Martin Blessing and Tom Naratil Chapter 7 Re-Orienting the Global Financial System Towards Sustainability Alma Pekmezovic Chapter 8 How Asset Managers can Better Align Public Markets Investing with the SDGs Emily Chew and Margaret Childe Chapter 9 The Significance of Sustainable Development Goals for Government Credit Quality Alastair Wilson Part Three Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Chapter 10 FinTech for Financial Inclusion: Driving Sustainable Growth Dirk A. Zetzsche, Ross P. Buckley & Douglas W. Arner Chapter 11 Financing and Self-Financing of SDGs through Financial Technology, Legal and Fiscal Tools Jon Truby Chapter 12 SDG Challenges In G20 Countries Guillaume Lafortune and Guido Schmidt-Traub Chapter 13 The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: Flourishing Business in a Truly Sustainable Future Geoff Kendall and Martin Rich Chapter 14 Financing for Youth Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development Inna Amesheva, Alex Clark, Julian Payne Chapter 15 Digitisation in the Supply Chain Julia Walker Part Four Facilitating the SDGs by Legal Infrastructure Reform Chapter 16 Facilitating Sustainable Development Goal 8 by Legal Reform Measures Gordon Walker Chapter 17 Facilitating SDGs by Tax System Reform Benjamin Walker Chapter 18 Facilitating SDGs by Competition and Consumer Law and Policy Reform: Aspirations and Challenges in PNG Brent Fisse Appendix: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development UN General Assembly Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Foreword: Implementation of the SDGs -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Overview and Context -- Part Two: Where Will the Money Come From? Financing the SDGs -- Part Three: Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship -- Part Four: Facilitating the SDGs by Legal Infrastructure Reform -- Part I Overview and Context -- 1 The UN and Goal Setting: From the MDGs to the SDGs -- Introduction -- What Is Development? -- Is There a Right to Development? -- Measuring Economic Development -- Measuring Non-Economic Aspects of Development -- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- Situating the SDGs in the International Legal Framework -- Theories of Development: Towards a New Theory of Sustainable Development -- Economic Theories of Development -- Cultural Theories of Development -- Geographic Theories of Development -- Institutional Theories of Development -- A New Theory of Sustainable Development -- Measuring Progress Towards the SDGs -- Conclusions -- 2 SDGs and the Role of International Financial Institutions -- Introduction -- Response and Implementation of the SDGs by IFIs -- Project Processing and Actions Taken by IFIs to Implement the SDGs, and Responses from Other Development Actors -- Conclusion and Recommendations for IFIs to Meet SDG Goals and Targets -- 3 Towards a New Global Narrative for the Sustainable Development Goals -- Introduction -- How SMART Are the SDGs? -- Goals That Stretch -- Goals That Inspire -- Sloganising the SDGs -- Towards a New Global Narrative? -- Conclusion -- 4 Overcoming Scarcity: The Paradox of Abundance: Harnessing Digitalisation in Financing Sustainable Development -- Scarcity: The Paradox of Abundance -- Financing: A Systemic Challenge -- Action on System Design -- Digital Financing of the SDGs.