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Director, Center for Sustainable Development @BrookingsInst. Co-founder, 17 Rooms. Sometime filmmaker. Personal account. CSD newsletter: https://t.co/VDUwtscKPB

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30 days
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 @ProSyn by Angela Bandemehr and @ADBChiefEcon explores how: #Room3 #17Rooms
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📢🗓️Join us this Friday January 10 at 9.30am ET @BrookingsInst for the launch of "For the World's Profit: How Business Can Support Sustainable Development" With @ndidiNwuneli, @SeidensteinTom, Miyahara Chie, and more!
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What's an idea with growing evidence & potentially broad bipartisan support to make a big dent in reducing deep U.S. poverty? Scaling up prenatal and infant cash prescriptions: A new #17Rooms memo by @MonaHannaA, L Shaefer, @DrKhaldun @anthonypipa et al
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RT @alemannoEU: New book: glad to have contributed to this timely volume on how business can (and should) support sustainable development b…
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Book landing page and full roster of amazing chapter authors here
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Maternal mortality is a tough and multi-pronged problem to solve. @SlaughterAM and @MEtiebetMD argue in @ProSyn that an “impact hub” approach could foster a genuine global partnership to achieve zero maternal deaths by 2030. #17rooms #sdg17👇
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It was fun to join @Walkerjc on the Systems Catalyst podcast to talk about what we've learned about collaborative goal-setting and how to support bottom-up, systemic progress:
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John W McArthur
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RT @anthonypipa: States & other intermediaries are responsible for giving out a major portion of the #IIJA & #IRA $$ that are impt to rural…
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John W McArthur
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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 @ProSyn Op-ed by @nils_gilman & Mutesi Rusagara #17Rooms
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John W McArthur
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Kevin Watkins and ODI colleagues are organizing animportant upcoming public discussion on school feeding, food system reform, and the Sustainable Development Goals on November 18
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John W McArthur
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Congratulations the Novata team for this inaugural survey on how companies are prepping for Europe's new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. A range of practical insights anticipating this consequential policy for the global economy. #csrd
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John W McArthur
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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 @BrookingsInst
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John W McArthur
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+ a related recent piece by @anthonypipa on how the two presidential campaigns have approached rural priorities so far:
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John W McArthur
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RT @PeterASinger: In 2025 🇨🇦 will once again host the #G7 meeting in Kananaskis Alberta. My friend @AbdallahDaar and I published this arti…
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RT @ASteiner: The #SDGs remind us that while progress is steady in some areas, it's not happening fast enough to meet the 2030 targets. Co…
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RT @progressntwrk: "There is no reason to give up hope," writes TPN member @mcarthur and Homi Kharas for @ProSyn. "The problem is not tha…
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John W McArthur
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RT @ProSyn: The #SDGs must be evaluated remembering the nature of their ambition. They were not set merely to perpetuate longer-term patter…
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RT @ZiaKhanNYC: Progress against goals needs to be precisely analyzed to understand specifically what's working or not. @mcarthur and Homi…
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