Botswana urged to embrace MDGs to SDGs transition

Clark
Clark

Botswana is in an ideal position to beneficially utilise the new, broader and detailed global development agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as a springboard to elude the middle-income trap.

These are the views of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator, Helen Clark who says this would also allow the country to leap into the next phase of social and economic development.

Set to be achieved by 2030, SDGs will kick in next year to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were viewed by many as only targeting the developing countries due to their poverty reduction centred theme.

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