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Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017

Reclaiming policies for the public

Privatization, partnerships, corporate capture, and their impact on sustainability and inequality - assessments and alternatives

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Overview

01.01 – Reclaiming the public (policy) space for the SDGs

By Jens Martens, Global Policy Forum, on behalf of the Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Este capítulo en español.

 

01.02 – Stalled implementation at national level

By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Este capítulo en español.

 

01.03 – Implementing the 2030 Agenda requires acknowledging extraterritorial obligations

By Barbara Adams and Karen Judd, Global Policy Forum

Este capítulo en español.

 

Spotlights on the SDGs

02.01 – Pro-poor or pro-corporations?

By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Este capítulo en español.

02.01.01 – Measuring extreme poverty: who decides what?

By Xavier Godinot, International Movement ATD Fourth World

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.02 – Facilitating corporate capture or investing in small-scale sustainable agriculture and agroecology?

By Stefano Prato, Society for International Development

Este capítulo en español.

02.02.01 – Agribusiness mega-mergers expose need for UN Competition Convention

By ETC Group

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.03 – Corporate influence on the global health agenda

By K M Gopakumar, Third World Network (TWN)

Este capítulo en español.

02.03.01 – Healthcare is not a commodity but a public good

By Sandra Vermuyten, Public Services International (PSI)

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.04 – Cashing in on SDG 4

By Antonia Wulff, Education International (EI)

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02.04.01 – The primary education conundrum in Africa: between corporate capture and public challenges

By Aidan Eyakuze, Twaweza East Africa

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02.05 – Corporate power: a risky threat looming over the fulfilment of women‘s human rights

By Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.06 - Ensuring just and sustainable water infrastructure

By Meera Karunananthan, Blue Planet Project and Susan Sponk, University of Ottawa

Este capítulo en español.

02.06.01 – Water in the MENA region: privatization amid scarcity

By Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition (Cairo)

Este capítulo en español.

02.06.02 – Remunicipalization: putting water back into public hands

By Satoko Kishimoto

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02.07 – Peoples’ power or how to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

By Hans JH Verolme, Climate Advisers Network

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02.08 – Decent work requires decent public policies

By Sandra Massiah and Sandra Vermuyten, Public Services International (PSI)

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.09 – Industrialization, inequality and sustainability: what kind of industry policy do we need?

By Manuel F. Montes, South Centre

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02.09.01 - The new generation of PPPs in infrastructure – meeting the needs of institutional investors

By David Boys, Public Service International

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02.10 – Squeezing the State: corporate influence over tax policy and the repercussions for national and global inequality

By Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights

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02.10.01 – Consolidating misery or catalyzing opportunity? The political economy of inequalities in East Africa

By Arthur Muliro Wapakala, Deputy Managing Director, Society for International Development

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02.11 – Commodification over community: financialization of the housing sector and its threat to SDG 11 and the right to housing

By Leilani Farha, Canada Without Poverty, and Bruce Porter, Social Rights Advocacy Centre

Este capítulo en español.

02.11.01 - Reclaiming OUR public transport

By Alana Dave, International Transport Federation (ITF)

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02.11.02 - Four critical steps to operationalize the New Urban Agenda’s transformative commitment to decent work and inclusive and sustainable cities (SDG 11)

By Daria Cibrario, Public Services International (PSI)

Este capítulo en español.

02.11.03 – The “Aerotropolis” phenomenon – high risk development thwarting SDGs

By Anita Pleumarom, Tourism Investigation and Monitoring Team

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02.12 - Binding rules on business and human rights – a critical prerequisite to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

By Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz, Global Policy Forum

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02.12.01 – Can the (interlinked) SDGs curtail the extractive industries?

By Volker Lehmann and Lennart Inklaar, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office

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02.13 – The pivot point: realizing Sustainable Development Goals by ending corporate capture of climate policy

By Tamar Lawrence-Samuel with Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability International, and Nathan Thanki, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.14 - The role of transnational corporations and extractive industries in seabed mining, and the impacts on oceans health and food security

By Maureen Penjueli, Pacific Network on Globalization

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02.15 - Trends in the privatization and corporate capture of biodiversity

By Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition and Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, University of Amsterdam

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02.15.01 - Corporate capture of agricultural biodiversity threatens the future we want

By Lim Li Ching, Third World Network (TWN)

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02.16. – Progressive implementation of the 2030 Agenda depends on achieving sustainable peace

By Ziad Abdel Samad, Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)

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02.16.01 – Private Military and Security Companies – obstacle to the realization of SDG 16

By Lou Pingeot, Global Policy Forum

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02.16.02 – Whistleblower protection – how serious are governments to address corruption

By Camilo Rubiano, Public Services International (PSI)

Este capítulo en español.

 

02.17 - Means of implementation or means of appropriation?

By Stefano Prato, Society for International Development

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02.17.01 – Leveraging corruption: how World Bank funds ended up destabilizing young democracies in Latin America

By Roberto Bissio, Social Watch

Este capítulo en español.