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AT: Link2AC -- AT: General Link2AC -- AT: State LinkState intervention is key to Sustainable DevelopmentPadilla ’21 [Luis-Alberto; 2021; president of the board of the Guatemalan International Relations & Peace Research Institute (IRIPAZ), member of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), former Secretary General of the Latin American Council on Peace Research (CLAIP), Director of the Diplomatic Academy, Former Vice Minister, former ambassador in Chile, former permanent representative to the United Nations at the Vienna International Centre, former ambassador to Austria, former ambassador to the Russian Federation, former ambassador to the Netherlands, permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, and professor of the Seminar of World Geopolitics at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University Rafael Landivar (URL) of Guatemala; Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene, “The UN 2030 Agenda and the SDGs,” Ch. 5.5, p. 243] SPark The implementation of the SDGs is a central issue of great difficulty and complexity. For instance, social development cannot be obtained via a magic trickledown of wealth from financial markets to the unemployed. State intervention is necessary to correct “market failures”. It is easy to imagine the obstacles and difficulties that the implementation of the SDGs involves and that range from the social sphere (poverty reduction, food security, health and education, gender equality) to the economy (energy, sustainable growth, urbanization, infrastructure, sustainable production and consumption, decent work) and the ecosystems (water and sanitation, climate change, oceans, seas and marine resources, terrestrial ecosystems, sustainable management of forests, stopping desertification, land degradation and loss of biodiversity) as they reach public policies. It seems to require the quadrature of the circle, among other reasons because the sphere of the environment is not linear (ecosystems are cyclical and therefore circular) and the intervention of the State in economy is (or used to be) the nemesis of the oligarchy, as demonstrated by Valdez (2015) in a book about the ideology of the ruling elites in Guatemala. Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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