Global Goals

• Author: Natalie Ramírez-Djumena
• Position: Prepared by , a Senior Editor on the staff of Finance & Development.

World leaders are set to adopt a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a United Nations conference in September. The SDGs are goals, targets, and indicators that governments around the world will be expected to achieve over the next 15 years. The 17 proposed goals include ending poverty and hunger, making cities safe, protecting the oceans, reducing inequality, and creating jobs. In addition to reducing poverty, the SDGs are supposed to steer money and government policy toward areas where they can do the most good.

The SDGs will replace the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which governments...