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  1. We will take an important step forward this autumn, when world leaders sign on to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an ambitious 15-year, 17-point agenda that seeks to achieve global food security, combat climate change and end extreme poverty.

  2. Highfalutin, meaning “pretentious” or “artificially elevated in style,” was first used in the early 19th century. It was primarily spoken slang, and when people wrote it down, they had to sound...

  3. May 26, 2019 · Sustainable Development (SD) has become a ubiquitous development paradigm—the catchphrase for international aid agencies, the jargon of development planners, the theme of conferences and academic papers, as well as the slogan of development and environmental activists (Ukaga, Maser, & Reichenbach, Citation 2011).

  4. Dec 8, 2010 · Allegedly a nineteenth-century Americanism, highfalutin is now known everywhere in the English speaking world, but, as could be expected, its etymology has not been discovered—“as could be expected,” because the origin of such words is almost impossible to trace.

  5. It thus provides the historical context for the ideas developed in this book. In the forty-year span, from the 1950s to the 1990s, there were many changes in the way development was viewed—both in terms of objectives and the mechanisms thought to be optimal to achieve these objectives.

  6. Jan 19, 2021 · Quality, not quantity, should define development. 2020 will go down in history as a year of global health, economic and social crises occurring against the backdrop of increasingly catastrophic climate events. It is a year that defines disruption.

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  8. adjective. infml (also hifalutin) us / ˌhɑɪ·fəˈlu·t ə n / Add to word list. trying to seem very important or serious without having a good reason for doing so; pretentious: highfalutin language. (Definition of highfalutin from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of highfalutin. highfalutin.