When the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was announced, Alex Evans laid out a useful typology of the five kinds of people you find on...
Molly Elgin-Cossart
Molly Elgin-Cossart is currently Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Non-resident Fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation. She was previously Chief of Staff to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Reactions to the Secretary-General’s synthesis report
The post-2015 synthesis report was never going to be an easy task. No one can envy UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon his responsibility, mandated by UN member...
Ending poverty through climate action in the Post-2015 development agenda
The post-2015 development agenda offers an extraordinary opportunity to tackle the world’s two most pressing challenges—poverty and climate change. A recent...
Implementing the Post-2015 Development Agenda in the United States
In a new report from the Center for American Progress, we explore the implications of implementing the post-2015 development agenda in the United States....
G20 gives U.S. until end of year on IMF reform
When finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 major economies met last week in Washington, they rapped the United States on the knuckles for its...
Sustainable development goals, targets and…clusters?
The UN’s Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) will meet next week to discuss potential goals and targets to replace the Millennium...
10 Tips for a Bold & Ambitious Post-2015 Development Agenda
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