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The past quarter century has witnessed a stunning reduction in the number of people around the world living on less than 1.25 a day, the marker for extreme poverty. This has led to a new sense of hope that extreme poverty can be eradicated within a generation. Yet optimism is tempered by the unique circumstances facing those who remain left behind and new challenges that weaken traditional paths to prosperity. The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty explores what it will take to finish the course. It identifies three critical challenges that define the last mile: securing peace, creating jobs

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Need for Innovations to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals -- Part I: Capturing Value -- Expanding Women's Economic Opportunities -- From Green Bonds to Sustainable Development: The Case of Nigeria -- Collective Action on Business Standards, Goals, and Metrics to Achieve Scale and Impact for the SDGs -- Professionalizing Cross-Sector Collaboration to Implement the SDGs -- Building Sustainable Financing Architecture to Achieve the SDGs: The Case of Brazil -- Part II: Targeting Places -- Making Rural Areas Places of Opportunity: Not Just a "Rural Agenda -- Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development -- Enhancing Statistical Capacity for Development -- Rescaling Government for an Urban Future -- Protecting Half the Ocean? -- Part III: Updating Governance -- A Canadian North Star: Crafting an Advanced Economy Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals -- A People's Agenda: Citizen Participation and the SDGs -- Safeguarding Our Global Commons -- Unity in Diversity: Reshaping the Global Health Architecture -- Crowding-In Private Finance: What Multilateral Banks Can Do Differently -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover