In addition, many believe that in the developing world the next technological innovations will allow them to achieve development with less energy investment.
There are several different ways to achieve development goals.
They seek ways to achieve development while keeping key ecosystems intact.
A collaborative response is also needed to achieve development goals in Africa.
"Without that proactive integration, they're not going to achieve development targets," Thayer told me, referring to policy makers.
Rather than seeking cash from others to achieve development results, a profound economic restructuring is required to finance change that is both sustainable and equitable.
Thus, the article quotes Esther Duflo, a development expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who argues that there is a glaring lack of information about how to achieve development goals.
It is based on the growing affinity between a set of countries all betting on market economies, foreign investment and trade with Asia to achieve development.
"China is integrated with the world now, and it sees that its chance to achieve development is through economic, not military, means," said Jia Qingguo, a foreign policy expert at Qinghua University in Beijing.
During the 1980s, both the IMF and the World Bank adopted the "Washington consensus" on economic policy, founded on the belief that free markets, privatisation and minimum government interference in the economy was the best way to achieve development.
We must continue to harness the ingenuity of the world's top researchers and scientific leaders to achieve development goals.
