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Guest blog: Lenni Montiel: Senior UN Development Leader (Ret.) | Former UN Assistant Secretary-General |UNDP Resident Representative | Governance, Public Policy & Multilateral Diplomacy | Leadership Advisor & Trainer | Chevening Scholar. Lenni writes on LinkedIn about the UN and international development. Originally published here. The Millennium Development Goals changed international development. But there is an interesting question behind them: Who actually created the MDGs? In September 2000, 189 Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration, General Assembly resolution 55/2. It was a broad political declaration: peace and security, development and poverty, human rights, democracy and good governance, vulnerable people, Africa, and the environment. The Declaration did not contain the familiar list of eight Millennium Development Goals as we later knew them. That framework emerged afterwards. In 1996, the OECD Development Assistance Committee published Shaping the 21st Ce...

 B odo Ellmers The debate over a global development agenda beyond 2030 has begun. One lesson should shape it from the outset: Ambitious goals are meaningless without the means to achieve them.  The 2030 Agenda was underfunded from the beginning: The financial framework the international community could agree on were never sufficient to make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievable. The promised "billions to trillions" model - assuming that a few billion in public finance would mobilise trillions in private investment - never mobilised private capital at anywhere near the scale required.  Ten years on, less than half of SDG targets with available trend data are on track or showing moderate progress and the annual financing gap has grown to more than US$4 trillion.  In this new paper for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bodo Ellmers outlines the current state of reform proposals on taxation and innovative finance, draws on good practice in international fiscal ...