Key Points
Over the course of 169 wordy targets, the world has promised to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, stop wars, climate change and corruption, improve education and healthcare, save biodiversity, reduce inequality, provide jobs for everyone - and even promote sustainable tourism and increase urban parks for the disabled...
Although resources are scarce, studies showed that every dollar spent teaching the student better with tablets would deliver an amazing $106 of long-term higher productivity...
India has embraced a cheaper, lo-tech solution in which schools shuffle students' classes for one hour each day, so that all students go to the class that is at their actual learning level..
Ghana's local governments, responsible for infra and service delivery, still depend on central gov transfers to fund their development, generating only about 20% of their total budget with their own resources...
Brazil has shifted to an e-procurement system that has been recognised for reducing losses to bribery, while Indonesia's reform has led to a 'significant decrease' in corruption. e-Procurement was recently implemented in Ghana and is underway in Malawi...
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