The New Millennial Opportunity: Doing Good is Good for Business
As the head of a company devoted to innovating products for people in the developing world, I look forward to the flurry of meetings surrounding the annual UN General Assembly session in New York. Most years, I leave this eventful week filled with inspiration. This year, my enthusiasm was tempered by a sense of uneasiness about the future of global development.
This is a pivotal year. We're bidding farewell to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set forth by the United Nations in 2000 to tackle poverty, hunger, disease, educational inequality and environmental degradation. In their place are a comprehensive set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will guide us through the next 15 years.
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This is a pivotal year. We're bidding farewell to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set forth by the United Nations in 2000 to tackle poverty, hunger, disease, educational inequality and environmental degradation. In their place are a comprehensive set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will guide us through the next 15 years.
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