Bill Easterly's take on the SDGs | Devex

Bill Easterly's take on the SDGs | Devex: "“I think [the SGDs] illustrate powerfully the limits of the development community's fetish with action plans,” the New York University professor told Devex in an email.

Easterly likewise criticized the process that is giving rise to the post-2015 development agenda, noting that creating an action plan by “consensus” leads to an “empty” final product.

He pointed derisively to a goal included in U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s synthesis report released late last year that would seek to ensure “people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.”

Easterly also derided the redundant use of the word “sustainable” in development circles — and in the post-2015 discussion — saying it appears “so often and in so many different contexts” that it has become almost meaningless.

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