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UNCTAD SDG Pulse 2025

UNCTAD SDG Pulse 2025

UNCTAD SDG Pulse 2025 provides an update on the evolution of a selection of official SDG indicators and complementary data and statistics about the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • SDGs by theme
        • Multilateralism
          • Developing economies and trade
          • Developing economies’ trade in services
          • Tariffs
        • Development finance
          • Development financing
          • Investment flows
          • Debt sustainability
          • Illicit financial flows
        • Diversification
          • Sustainable industrialization
          • Digital technologies for development
        • Sustainability
          • Transport resilience & sustainability
          • Resilience and risk
  • SDGs by theme
    • Multilateralism and trade
      • Developing economies and trade
      • Developing economies' trade in services
      • Tariffs
    • Development finance
      • Development financing
      • Investment flows
      • Debt sustainability
      • Illicit financial flows
    • Diversification
      • Sustainable industrialisation
      • Digital technologies for development
    • Sustainability and resilience
      • Transport resilience and sustainability
      • Resilience and risk
  • SDGs by goal
  • SDGs by goal
  • In focus
    • 2025: Critical minerals
    • 2024: Gender
    • 2023: Paths to SDGs
    • 2022: Inclusive growth
    • 2021: Remoteness
    • 2020: COVID-19
    • 2019: Inequality
  • UNCTAD in action
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Development finance

UNCTAD The Bridgetown Covenant – Major transformations are needed to move to a more resilient, digital and inclusive world of shared prosperity: improving the way development is financed.

Development finance Goal 17: Partnership for the goals Goal 2: Zero hunger Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure UNCTAD sub-themes 

Development finance

17/06/202320/06/2025 sonia

Sustained and inclusive economic growth is an essential requisite for poverty eradication and sustainable development.

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Development finance Goal 17: Partnership for the goals Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth 

Bringing South-South cooperation into focus: the journey to measurement

06/03/202020/06/2025 sonia

Heads of state and government gather at FfD4 this year1 to reshape the global financial architecture for sustainable development. Amid

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Development finance Goal 17: Partnership for the goals Goal 2: Zero hunger Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure 

With falling foreign direct investment, investment-promoting regimes increasingly more important to reach the SDGs

17/05/201926/06/2025 sonia

Bridging the financing gap to achieve the SDGs and facilitate long-term economic transformation requires effective mobilization and utilization of various

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Development finance Goal 17: Partnership for the goals 

Costlier debt servicing undermines the achievement of the SDGs

06/03/201926/06/2025 sonia

Amid global uncertainty and recurring external shocks, the cost of capital for developing countries has risen, undermining their capacity to

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Development finance Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 

Measuring illicit financial flows for stronger domestic resources

06/03/201927/06/2025 sonia

The 2030 Agenda identifies the reduction of IFFs as a priority, as reflected in target 16.4. This target is essential

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In focus this year

Trade in critical minerals shapes energy transition, digital transformation and industrial development worldwide
In focus 

Trade in critical minerals shapes energy transition, digital transformation and industrial development worldwide

06/05/202526/06/2025 sonia

Rethinking the role of critical minerals for development The global shift toward a low-carbon economy has intensified the demand for

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