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Major Challenges Confronting Sustainable Development of Countries and the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

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This chapter provides a critical assessment of the major challenges that confront the achievement of the SDGs. It also provides a detailed analysis of the main internal and external factors that influence the factors of success. Critically, the chapter assess the inherent contradiction between the prescribed roles of the various actors in the SDG Agenda, their actual role, and the factors that influence the divergence between what is prescribed and what exists in reality under the current international governance and economic systems.

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    Nadini Persaud

  2. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Persaud, N., Dagher, R. (2021). Major Challenges Confronting Sustainable Development of Countries and the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. In: The Role of Monitoring and Evaluation in the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70213-7_2

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