Time to invest n ESG
The global community is working to transform the world by implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs) to protect fundamental rights of the people, promote equality, social justice, eliminate poverty; ensure access…
Governance for local governments: Part – III
Proposed governance system for local governments: In light of the experience of the 2001 LGO, let us now examine what needs to be done to avoid the weaknesses of the…
Countering illicit financial flows
The illicit movement of funds is a global challenge, threatening domestic and international financial systems. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has recently highlighted that the total…
Institutional poverty
Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first millennium development goal (MDG) agreed by all the member states of the UN in 1990 with a target to halve the…
17 goals to transform the world
They key to success for transforming our country is to follow the UN development goals as our indigenous development agenda On September 25, the 193 members of UN General Assembly…
Inclusive SDGs
December 3, 2016, marked the UN International Day of People with Disabilities. This year, its theme is ‘achieving 17 goals for the future we want’. As the world’s largest and…
How CPEC can help the SDGs
This newspaper’s initiative to help mainstream Sustainable Development Goals through a series of articles focusing on the SDGs has brought forth the complexity and policy choices that need to be…
17 goals to transform the world
On September 25, the 193 members of UN General Assembly unanimously adopted Agenda 2030, titled “transforming our world”. Through this agenda commonly known as Sustainable Development Goals, the global leadership…
Future of nuclear France
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent – Charles de Gaulle While originally France considered possession of nuclear weapons as a means to achieve ‘great power…
Terms without meaning
At the UN Assembly in September 2000 world leaders pledged, “We recognise that, in addition to our separate responsibilities to our individual societies, we have a collective responsibility to uphold…
