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What are Sustainable Development Goals?

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The 17 SDGs follow, and expand on, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focused only on developing countries.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The 17 SDGs follow, and expand on, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focused only on developing countries.

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The 17 SDGs follow, and expand on, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focused only on developing countries.

Key concepts: Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable development, Member states, Political science, Frame (networking), Set (abstract data type), Economic growth, Development economics

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