SDG 17 is a vision for improved and more equitable trade, as well as coordinated investment initiatives to promote sustainable development across borders.

[4] The Goal has 17 targets to be achieved by 2030, broken down into five categories: finance, technology, capacity building, trade and systemic issues.

[4] In 2016, six countries met the international target to keep official development assistance at or above 0.7 percent of gross national income.

[4] Humanitarian crises brought on by conflict or natural disasters have continued to demand more financial resources and aid.

Many regions of strong economic status perform very poorly, like the United States and much of Europe.

A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society.

[7] Sustainable Goal 17 targets long-term investments to empower sectors and companies in need, more adaptable in developmental countries.

The framework of development covers evaluating and following up with rules and regulations, the sector's structure to attract more investment projects to the country and thus improving its economical standards.

"[10] Target 17.6 is formulated as: "Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation: Enhance north-south, south-south and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the united nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism.

[7] Despite the increase of the global share related to internet access the digital divide persist.

[7] Target 17.12 is formulated as: "Remove trade barriers for least developed countries: Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with world trade organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access.

However, centring such mechanisms as the criterion by which policy coherence is judged or measured risks neglecting how and whether sustainable development is (trans)formed.

[7] Target 17.18 is formulated as: "Enhance availability of reliable data: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing states, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.

"[9] This target has three indicators:[7] By 2017 only the half of the funding required for data and statistics ($690 million) was mobilized.

[12] In particular, a drastic resurgence in geopolitical tensions and nationalism threatens to undermine cooperation on the SDGs.

[18] The UN Secretary-General gave a development of strategy that spread out a dream for how the global network can show a powerful, organized reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 Financing for Economical Advancement Report traces measures to address the effect of the unpacked worldwide back down and financial crisis, particularly within the world's poorest nations.