Book review: "Leave No One Behind" i #LNOB

This book is like a favourite CD or LP [that's vinyl ;-) ], every track - chapter - is an ace - no duds. I wanted to start this review with the final chapter, but I'll pick that up in due course (iv?). The book is structured in three parts:

1. People
2. Problems
3. Places

I don't read horror specifically, so it is not often a book scares me from the get-go; but this one did. 

Chapter 1 gets specific on the statistics of LNOB and sustainable development. The numbers make for grim reading and had me wondering how much sense I could make of the book overall from the albeit COVID tainted comfort of Wigan Pier. What stood out was the way the intro chapter set out the stall. Obviously, that's the purpose and while depressed at what was follow from the initial graphs, the structure and cogency provided its own impetus to read. The text is clear and very readable, the data, graphs, notes all have bite. While the SDGs are Sisyphean in nature, the intro is like a snowball that starts from the upper peaks and grows chapter by chapter in meaning and significance.

Obviously, Agenda 2030 looms large, but if you think in first reading of poverty, or to be more specific ultra-poor, income, education, Africa, development and finance you know the agenda to follow then for this community mental health nurse there are insights aplenty. ...

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2021/01/leave-no-one-behind-i.html

Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur and Izumi Ohno, (Eds.) 2020. Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. ?