Countries with effective governments have reduced income poverty by almost twice the speed.
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Providing women with credit improves gender inequality.
Also known as the Mexico City policy, the rule increases abortion demand and has consequences for a range of other health matters such as HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer and child health and well-being.
The Millennium Development Goals failed in aspects like poverty. Lessons must be learnt to ensure that these mistakes will not be repeated by the Sustainable Development Goals.
An index developed to gauge progress towards the sustainable development goals and their targets shows that nine of the world’s worst performing countries are in Africa.
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Extraordinary Professor, Global Health, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council
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Academic, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Federation University Australia
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Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow & Senior Research Officer, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Professor of Sustainability Science, Technical University of Denmark
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Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Reader in Development Economics, University of Manchester