
John W McArthur
@mcarthur
Director, Center for Sustainable Development @BrookingsInst. Co-founder, 17 Rooms. Sometime filmmaker. Personal account. CSD newsletter: brook.gs/3nL6xQK
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https://www.brookings.edu/experts/john-mcarthur/ 23-02-2009 20:36:27
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Progress against goals needs to be precisely analyzed to understand specifically what's working or not. John W McArthur and Homi Kharas analyze the #SDGs and share suprising insights on how we are really doing. project-syndicate.org/commentary/ass…

The #SDGs must be evaluated remembering the nature of their ambition. They were not set merely to perpetuate longer-term patterns of progress; the point was to accelerate it dramatically, note Homi Kharas and John W McArthur of The Brookings Institution. bit.ly/3N7vu5f

"There is no reason to give up hope," writes TPN member John W McArthur and Homi Kharas for Project Syndicate. "The problem is not that everything is getting worse. It is that many things are not getting better any faster than they were before." project-syndicate.org/commentary/ass…


The #SDGs remind us that while progress is steady in some areas, it's not happening fast enough to meet the 2030 targets. Countries must accelerate efforts toward transformational change #By2030, while holding on to hope and action. Project Syndicate ow.ly/Cybo50TBCEm

In 2025 🇨🇦 will once again host the #G7 meeting in Kananaskis Alberta. My friend Abdallah Daar OC, FRS(C), DPhil (Oxon), FRCS, FRCP and I published this article, “Harnessing Genomics and Bioetechnology to Improve Global Health Equity,” in Science magazine 23 years ago, the last time 🇨🇦 hosted a G7 (then G8) meeting


A prevalent global narrative of "too much debt" and "not enough growth" for developing countries needs to recognize the role for increasing high-return, debt-financed investment to fuel sustainable growth. So argues Homi Kharas in a blog The Brookings Institution brookings.edu/articles/an-en…




In August 2024, a family of mountain gorillas in Rwanda received the world’s first cross-species payment. This “interspecies money” could create incentives for a new planetary economy. New Project Syndicate Op-ed by @nils_gilman & Mutesi Rusagara #17Rooms project-syndicate.org/commentary/int…


It was fun to join Jeffrey Walker on the Systems Catalyst podcast to talk about what we've learned about collaborative goal-setting and how to support bottom-up, systemic progress: lnk.to/system-catalys…


Maternal mortality is a tough and multi-pronged problem to solve. Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 and Mary-Ann Etiebet argue in Project Syndicate that an “impact hub” approach could foster a genuine global partnership to achieve zero maternal deaths by 2030. #17rooms #sdg17👇project-syndicate.org/commentary/glo…


New book: glad to have contributed to this timely volume on how business can (and should) support sustainable development by The Brookings Institution


📢🗓️Join us this Friday January 10 at 9.30am ET The Brookings Institution for the launch of "For the World's Profit: How Business Can Support Sustainable Development" brookings.edu/events/profit-… With Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, Tom Seidenstein, Miyahara Chie, and more!


Lead poisoning is a major killer placing huge burdens on people and economies around the world. Fortunately an X-RAY technology can help uncover and remove the sources. A new op-ed Project Syndicate by Angela Bandemehr and Albert Park explores how: project-syndicate.org/commentary/por… #Room3 #17Rooms