Who's been left behind? Why sustainable development goals fail the Arab world

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10040, 2016, Pages 207-210

  El Zein, Abbas ^a   DeJong, Jocelyn ^b   Fargues, Philippe ^c   Salti, Nisreen ^b   Hanieh, Adam ^d   Lackner, Helen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Independent Researcher   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB WORLD; ARMY; CITIZENSHIP; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MIGRANT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WAR; WORKER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; UNITED NATIONS; WARFARE;

ARAB WORLD; ARMED CONFLICTS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GLOBAL HEALTH; GOALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; REFUGEES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED NATIONS; WARFARE;

EID: 84954349024     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01312-4     Document Type: Note

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