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The 17th United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to strengthen the means of implementation

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and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

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ODA reached a record high of $161 billion in 2020, representing a 32% increase of donors' GNI,

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but still short of the target of 0.7% of GNI.

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Defying predictions remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries

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who reached $540 billion in 2020, which is only 1.6% below the 2019 level.

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Foreign direct investment dropped by up to 40%, and nearly half of the global population,

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3.7 billion people, are still not online, despite the immense need for connectivity during the pandemic.

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63% of low-income and lower- to middle-income countries are in need of additional financing

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for data and statistics to face the challenges posed by the pandemic.