Foreword III

Acknowledgements VI

Introduction 1

I Global development in a challenging multilateral context: key messages from the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) 5

II Global shifts and emerging challenges defining the future of the global sustainable development framework 19

 Post-2030: Accelerating Development Under Climate Overshoot by Åsa Persson 21

 Demographic Perspectives of Ultra-low Fertility and High Fertility and Implications for Development by Nyovani Madise 28

 Artificial Intelligence and the Energy-Water-Climate Nexus by Arunabha Ghosh 37

 Beyond 2030: A Test of Humanity’s Shared Intentionality by Carlos Alvarado Quesada 46

III The centrality of productive capacities and trade in a beyond 2030 framework 49

 Development Economics for an Age of Upheaval by Carlos Lopes 51

 Making Productive Capacity Development Central to Development Beyond 2030: Toward Enhanced Partnerships for Knowledge Co-creation by Izumi Ohno 55

 Trade as an Instrument for Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development by Trudi Hartzenberg 63

 Making Trade Work for Development by Ahmed Galal 72

 Making Market Access Work: Domestic Policies for Competitiveness in LDCs by Natalya Volchkova 75

 From Trade Preferences to Productive Capacities: Reimagining S&DT for LDCs beyond 2030 by Taffere Tesfachew 85

 Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa by George Owusu Essegbey 94

 Making Smooth Transition Strategies Work for the LDCs by Debapriya Bhattacharya and Mamtajul Jannat 101

IV Pathways for financing for development 111

 Global Financial Cooperation: Development Finance and Monetary and Tax Cooperation by José Antonio Ocampo 112

 Africa Must Build the Financial Architecture its Transformation Requires by Carlos Lopes 123

 Reforming Funding Mechanisms for the UN Development System Beyond 2030 by Xufeng Zhu and Yi Su 129

V Addressing poverty and inequality137

 Poverty and Poverty Measurement by Sabina Alkire 139

 National and International Income Inequality Should be Tackled Head-on in a Global Framework for Development Post-2030 by Rolph van der Hoeven 148