scholarly journals Assessing statistical link between FinTech PEST environment and achievement of SDGs

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Gintarė Pauliukevičienė ◽  
Jelena Stankevičienė

Implementation of SDGs is the unified goal of 193 UN Member States. FinTech plays a crucial role in achieving it. Therefore, the development of FinTech must be facilitated through proper policy-making and public finance, creating beneficial PEST conditions. However, the interaction of the FinTech PEST environment and achievement of SDGs is a topic that has not yet been addressed. The purpose of this study is to assess the link between these two indicators using statistical methods, indicate SDGs having the strongest link to FinTech PEST environment, and explain the interface to facilitate its useful application within government and financial regulations, as well as administration of the state and municipal financial entities. The results show that the economic and investment potential of Northern Europe is caused by the most favorable PEST environment for FinTech sector development, and demonstrate the existence of a statistical link between FinTech PEST environment and SDG4, SDG8, SDG9, SDG16. There is a clear trend – the more favorable the FinTech PEST environment, the better the achievement of SDGs, the better results of Sustainable Finance indicators, and the higher the Sustainable Finance typology assigned to the country. These results suggest that the goals, targets, and indicators of SDG4, SDG8, SDG9, and SDG16 contribute to the formation of a favorable environment and are conductive to the sustainable development of the FinTech industry in a country. Therefore, sustainability in the development of FinTech industry and finance, and the achievement of SDGs, is a circular process of three interacting factors.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1118-1127
Author(s):  
A. V. Babkin ◽  
U. V. Fortunova

Aim. The presented study aims to develop an organizational and economic mechanism for managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise that would increase the enterprise’s performance and the sustainability of its development in a competitive environment and in the context of the digital transformation of the industry.Tasks. The authors analyze and formulate the concept of the organizational and economic mechanism for managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise; develop the organizational and economic mechanism for managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise; identify stages in the process of managing the sustainable development of an industrial enterprise; evaluate the economic potential of an enterprise.Methods. This article is based on the analysis and formalization of the main provisions of the study, which uses economic-mathematical and economic-statistical methods to assess the performance and development of an enterprise.Results. The urgency of improving the efficiency of managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise is justified. The concept of an organizational and economic mechanism for managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise is formulated and the stages of this management process are identified. An organizational and economic mechanism for managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise is developed, ensuring an increase in the enterprise’s performance.Conclusions. Application of the organizational and economic mechanism for managing the competitive sustainable development of an industrial enterprise will make it possible to keep track of unfavorable market trends and adequately respond to them, thus increasing the performance of the enterprise.


Effective financial systems provide significant benefits for the sustainable development of the countries. Therefore, most governments aim to take some actions to increase the effectiveness of the financial system. In this framework, financial intermediaries play a crucial role for this purpose. Financial intermediaries can be mainly classified into two different categories: banks and nonbanking organizations. In this chapter, the responsibilities of the financial intermediaries are explained. Within this context, first of all, the different types of the banks are identified. In addition, nonbanking organizations are defined. It is concluded that financial intermediaries should work effectively to increase the performance of the financial system. This situation has a positive influence on the economic growth of the countries.


2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 4709-4712
Author(s):  
Li Li ◽  
Yi Xiao Liang

Based on the theory of Global Value Chain (GVC), this paper studies the sustainable development of athletic equipment industrial cluster from the perspective of GVC. This paper first reviews the relevant theories of GVC, and then investigates into the upgrade mode of China’s athletic equipment industrial cluster in the theoretical framework of GVC. Through theoretical analysis and empirical research, the paper puts forward the upgrade idea of China’s athletic equipment industrial cluster, and provides the basis for its development and policy-making.


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Статья посвящена рассмотрению особенностей управления общественными финансами в парадигме устойчивого развития и влияния на социальные, экономические и экологические процессы в государстве. Концепция устойчивого развития была впервые рассмотрена в 1987 г., но в большинстве стран мира формирование социально-экономической политики на принципах устойчивости связано с принятием глобального документа «Цели в области устойчивого развития» (англ. Sustainable Development Goals). Швейцария является одной из стран, которая на законодательном уровне закрепила достижение устойчивого развития как национальную цель, реализуемую в рамках деятельности всех субъектов хозяйствования, в том числе в сфере управления общественными финансами. Посредством принятия Стратегии устойчивого развития осуществляется интеграция международных приоритетов развития в систему стратегического управления Швейцарии, которая затрагивает все уровни бюджетной системы. При формировании и изменении данного документа применяются трёхмерная модель устойчивого развития и модель основного капитала, суть которых раскрыта в статье. В ходе исследования было выявлено, что за период 2000–2020 гг. Швейцарии удалось повысить уровень устойчивости общественных финансов, а также социальную ориентированность: существенно снизились доля уровня государственного долга и объема дефицита федерального бюджета по отношению к ВВП, наблюдался рост доли расходов на социальное обеспечение, науку и образование. Применяемые меры контрциклической политики позволяют балансировать сальдо бюджетов бюджетной системы Швейцарии посредством установления бюджетных ограничений на размер расходной части, на которые оказывают влияние совокупность внешних и внутренних факторов. Текущий кризис, вызванный новой волной коронавирусной инфекции, отразился на финансовом результате федерального бюджета по итогам 2020 г. и изменил плановые показатели до 2024 г. В заключительной части проведен сравнительный анализ систем стратегического управления Швейцарии и России, выявлены проблемы отечественной системы. Обоснована возможность применения в российской практике швейцарских моделей с учётом особенностей нашей страны. Ключевые слова: устойчивое развитие, общественные финансы, стратегия развития, цели устойчивого развития, национальные цели, стратегические документы, показатели федерального бюджета, Швейцария, трёхмерная модель, модель основного капитала, социальная политика, государственный долг, инвестиционная активность, расходные обязательства, дефицит бюджета, контрциклическая политика, структурный дефицит, циклический дефицит, государственный внебюджетный фонд, государственные программы. Abstract. The article discusses features of public finance management in the paradigm of sustainable development and impact on social, economic and environmental processes in the state. The Sustainable development concept was first considered in 1987, but the formation of social and economic policies based on the principles of sustainability is associated with the adoption of the global document "Sustainable Development Goals" in most countries of the world. Switzerland is one of the countries that has enshrined the achievement of sustainable development as a national goal at the legislative level. This goal is implemented in all incorporated and unincorporated businesses activities, including in the field of public finance management. Through the adoption of the Sustainable Development Strategy, international development priorities are being integrated into Switzerland's strategic management system, which affects all the budgetary system levels. During forming and changing this document, a three-dimensional model of sustainable development and a model of fixed capital are used, the essence of which is disclosed in the article. The article analyses that Switzerland had to increase the level of public fi-nances stability, as well as social orientation in 2000–2020: the share of the level of public debt and the volume of the federal budget deficit in relation to GDP has decreased significantly, and the share of spending on social security, science and education has grown. The applied countercyclical policy measures allow balancing the budget balance of the Swiss budgetary system by setting budgetary restrictions on the expenditure, which is influenced by a combination of external and internal factors. The current crisis caused by the new coronavirus infection is affecting the federal budget financial results of the current year and changing the planned targets until 2024. As a result of the study, the authors make comparative analysis of the Swiss and Russian strategic management systems, and identify problems of the domestic system. The possibility of implementing Swiss models in Russian practice are demonstrated taking into account the special aspects of our country. Keywords: sustainable development, public finance, development strategy, sustainable development goals, national goals, strategic documents, budget target, Switzerland, three-dimensional model, fixed capital model, social policy, public debt, investment activity, expenditure commitments, budget deficit, anti-cyclical policy, structural deficit, cyclical deficit, state non-budgetary fund, government programs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ziolo ◽  
Iwona Bak ◽  
Katarzyna Cheba

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund reported that the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires an escalation of development finance. The report Scaling Finance for the Sustainable Development Goals highlighted the urgency of the efforts to realize SDGs in encouraging financial innovation to move quickly. Even if the role of finance in achieving SDGs is unquestionable, few scientific studies have addressed these issues. We tried to fill the existing research gap. In this study, we examined the link between sustainable finance and SDGs based on European Union countries belonging to the OECD. We present a new and the original research approach. We assumed that the sustainable finance model plays a fundamental role in implementing SDGs (all SDGs were analysed except for SDG 6 and SDG14, due to lack of statistics were not analysed) and ensuring that social and environmental sustainability are reflected in SDGs. The results of this study show that the more sustainable the finance model, the better the achievement of SDGs in the group of analysed countries. We found a strong link between sustainable finance model and social sustainability (SDG1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 16); environmental sustainability (SDG11, 12, 13, 15) and economic sustainability (SDG8, 9, 17).


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 975
Author(s):  
Marco Migliorelli

I observe that the sustainable finance landscape as it stands today is featured by an overabundance of heterogeneous concepts, definitions, industry and policy standards. I argue that such heterogeneity may hinder the smooth development of the conceptual thinking underpinning sustainable finance and originates specific risks that may harm the credibility of the nascent market. These risks include green and sustainable washing, the rebranding of financial flows without additionality, the disordered adjustment in the cost of capital spreads between industries. I argue that to reflect the actual industry and policy context as wells as to steer conceptual and applied practice sustainable finance should be today referred to as “finance for sustainability”. To this extent, both its definition and implementing standards should make clear reference to the relevant sustainability dimensions (in particular in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement) and to the sectors or activities that positively contribute to these dimensions.


2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-385
Author(s):  
Marek Haliniak

The article deals with the experience and results of attempts aimed at using cybernetic system methods for modeling the policy of sustainable development. The analysis is made from the ecophilosophical perspective. The cybernetics is presented as the sub-philosophical, general, and inter-disciplinary science with a high level of influence on the process of policy-making and policy-makers. However, the barriers of philosophy and cybernetics in that respect are strictly connected with the limits of philosophy. The question concerns the problem of transferring the ideas into practice by the method of cybernetic modeling. Whereas the conceptual model should reflect the objective reality it should be based on some general, politically accepted ideas. This necessity is obvious because of the link between the basic axioms of a given model with the general results generated by it. The author analyses the possibility of appliance the Sage-Michnowski model as the instrument for planning the sustainable development policy as the interrelated social, economic, and ecological system.


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