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==== 4.3.2.1 Countries Have Different Development Priorities ====

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At the global level, the SDGs adopted by all the United Nations Member States in 2015 are delineated with a view to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. The 17 SDGs are integrated and imply that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.

While all countries share the totality of the SDGs, development priorities differ across countries and over time. These priorities are strongly linked to local contexts, and depend on which dimensions of improvements in the well-being of people are considered the most urgent.

Development priorities are reflected in the decisions that actors within societies make, such as policy choices by governments and parliaments at all levels, votes over competing policy platforms by citizens, or selection of issues that non-state actors push for. Multiple objectives range from poverty eradication to providing energy access, addressing concerns of inequality, providing education, improving health, cleaning air and water, improving connectivity, sustaining growth and providing jobs, among others. For example, eradicating poverty and reducing inequality is a key development priority across many countries, such as Brazil ( [[#Grottera--2017|Grottera et al. 2017]] ), Indonesia ( [[#Irfany--2017|Irfany and Klasen 2017]] ), India (GoI 2015), South Africa ( [[#Winkler--2018|Winkler 2018]] ) and other low- and middle-income countries ( [[#Dorband--2019|Dorband et al. 2019]] ). Reducing inequality relates not only to income, but also to other dimensions such as in access to energy services ( [[#Tait--2017|Tait 2017]] ), gender, education, racial and ethnic profiles (Andrijevic et al. 2020), and thereby assumes relevance in both developing and developed countries. The development priorities of many poor countries and communities with low capacities to adapt, has been focused more on reducing poverty, providing basic infrastructure, education and improving health, rather than on mitigation ( [[#Chimhowu--2019|Chimhowu et al. 2019]] ).

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