NYU Development Research Institute

Communiqué
Meeting of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, Indonesia, 27 March 2013

We discussed how to build a global partnership … for our development agenda….global ownership of a shared development agenda…. consulted with a range of stakeholders……. a renewed Global Partnership that enables a transformative, people-centered and planet-sensitive development agenda …. partnership of all stakeholders. …in the context of sustainable development ….a single and coherent post-2015 development agenda …. social inclusion and environmental sustainability…

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I have been reading Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.  Despite being a self-appointed feminist, I feel unqualified to comment on many of the debates around the book. But what inspired me and reminded me of development discussions is Sandberg’s willingness to speak out where there have been so many evasions and euphemisms:

In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves.

If current trends continue, fifteen years from today, about one-third of the women in this audience will be working full-time and almost all of you will be working for the guy you are sitting next to…If you want the outcome to be any different, you will have to do something about it.

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Jeb Bush’s new book, Immigration Wars, has attracted attention for its proposal of a second-class status for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, that they could become permanent legal residents, but not citizens.

A former Congressman from Illinois, A. Lincoln, received an advance copy of Jeb’s book and made the following comments. While not attempting to fully resolve the complex problem of illegal immigration, former Congressman Lincoln commented on the proposal of second-class status:

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