In recent decades, millions of people in the Arab world have been lifted out of extreme poverty.

Achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) — which aim to end poverty, boost shared prosperity and promote sustainability, between now and 2030 — will require overcoming some major obstacles, ranging from securing enough financing to addressing climate change to

The goals of the post-2015 development agenda cannot be achieved without strong programmes and adequate funding.

Since the turn of the century, the international development community has rallied behind the Millennium Development Goals, which set specific targets in eight key areas, including poverty, child mortality and disease, to be achieved by 2015. In formulating the post-2015 develop