Center for American Progress - Sustainable Security Initiative

The risk that impoverished populations in fragile and conflict-affected states will be left behind by the United Nations' ambitious development agenda is increasing as member states negotiate the post-2015 development agenda, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/06/08/114296/fragile-progress/

Fragile Progress The risk that impoverished populations in fragile and conflict-affected states will be left behind by the United Nations' ambitious development agenda is increasing as member states negotiate the post-2015 development agenda, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals.

In Niger, 75 percent of girls are married before their 18th birthdays, and 36 percent of them are married before their 15th birthdays

We need targeted efforts to assist child brides if we hope to break the vicious cycle that treats our daughters as a disposable commodity.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2014/03/19/85931/too-young-helping-child-brides-in-the-developing-world/

A new report from John Norris, Paul Applegarth, and Casey Dunning on the case for regional Millennium Challenge Corporation - MCC compacts

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2014/03/17/85910/the-case-for-regional-compacts/

The Case for Regional Compacts As the Millennium Challenge Corporation approaches its 10-year anniversary, it must explore and implement new aid approaches to stay on the cutting edge of international development best practices. Embracing regional compacts and regional threshold programs would allow the MCC to increase its number...

Wholesale tax evasion, particularly in the developing world, can have devastating effects, writes Akinyi Ochieng

http://bit.ly/1csbT84

Tackling Tax Havens Wholesale tax evasion, particularly in the developing world, can have devastating effects.