Africa: UN's Development Goals Threatened By a World Economy Facing Recession

23 April 2020

United Nations — The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described as an integral part of its highly-ambitious development agenda, may be in deep trouble.

Aimed at addressing some of the global challenges the world faces- including extreme poverty and hunger, inequalities in incomes and gender, climate change and environmental degradation- the SDGs now seem threatened by a world economy facing a brutal recession.

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