No more business as usual: Delivering on sustainable development for the Caribbean

Amina Mohammed

By Amina Mohammed

 

At the turn of the century, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represented a new approach to address by end of 2015 the greatest development challenges of that time. The goals in 2000 catalyzed the most successful anti-poverty initiative in history; it was a common framework that world leaders signed onto.

Over the last two decades, growth in the Caribbean has stagnated and many Caribbean countries