In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and now individual countries face the challenge of implementing strategies that help realize the ambitions of this agenda, embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This book presents a Country Development Diagnostics Post-2015 framework, designed to assess country-level implications of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and applications of the framework to ten countries. The framework helps policy makers identify policies that may accelerate progress on the SDGs, and analyze sources of fiscal space to finance additional spending. Current levels of SDGs and their determinants are benchmarked on the basis of country per capita income, making it possible to compare the focus country to other countries. On the basis of current prospects for income growth, the framework also projects likely SDG outcomes for 2030 in the absence of accelerated progress.