Sustainable development goals: harnessing business to achieve the SDGs through finance, technology and law reform

Abstract

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.