Social Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Khemka, Nitya Mohan; Kumar, Suraj

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book assesses the roadmap for the implementation of the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs) in South Asia, focusing on poverty reduction, inequality, health/wellbeing and water and sanitation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351035248
• Artikelnr.: 57619918

Autorenporträt

Nitya Mohan Khemka is an Affiliate Lecturer at the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow Commoner at Clare Hall College. She is also Senior Advisor to the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and is Director at the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation where she heads up the Foundation's initiative on "The Indian Welfare State in the 21st century". Suraj Kumar is SDG Advisor to the State Government of Chhattisgarh and Tripura and the UN in India and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. He has pioneered the state Human Development Reports for 23 states in India, beginning with the Madhya Pradesh HDR in 1995. He is currently Senior Advisor at the KISS Bhubaneswar and visiting fellow at universities in India and the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Unfinished MDG Agenda and SDGs 2. Sustainable Development Goals in
South Asia: Progress, Challenges and the Way Forward 3. Sustainable
Development Goals in Bangladesh: Promises, Prospects and Opportunities 4.
Where Does India Stand on the Sustainable Development Goals? Progress and
Challenges 5. Sustainable Development Goals in Nepal: Prospects and
Challenges 6. Incomplete case-study on Pakistan : Title TBD 7. "Leave No
Woman Behind": Goal 5 through the South Asian lens 8. Towards a Policy
Agenda for Achieving SDGs in South Asia 9. Reporting of South Asian
Countries on the SDGs at the Global Level: Experiences, Challenges and Way
Forward 10. South-South Cooperation in South Asia to Achieve the
Sustainable Development Goals