Sustainable Development Indicators and Their Relationship to GDP: Evidence from Emerging Economies

This paper aims to analyze the metrics the United Nations has set and called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their association with the gross domestic product (GDP) in emerging economies. SDGs have been identified to measure healthy development, whereas GDP has historically been used to measure economic health and has been prioritized above many other indicators. This research deploys the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) and the seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) on panel data consisting of the five BRIC countries spanning 2000 through 2017 to estimate a regression model that shows the association of SDGs with GDP. The paper concludes that targeting GDP may not lead to achieving overall SDGs.

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Comparative analysis of sustainable development indicators at E.U. and Romanian level

10.24264/icams-2020.iv.5 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dana Corina Deselnicu ◽

Beatrice Alexandra Alexandrescu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Secondary Data ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Indicators ◽

Sustainable Development Indicators ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Eu

Sustainable development aims for a better future for us and future generations. To follow it, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was developed, which proposes, through its 17 objectives, the intervention directions. The 2030 Agenda was adopted by both Romania and the EU. Each objective is represented by a set of indicators. The objective of the paper is the comparative analysis of the most important indicators of sustainable development in EU and Romania. In this paper, the main indicators of sustainable development at EU level were analyzed. Subsequently, the same indicators were investigated in Romania, to perform a comparative analysis. The research used secondary data. Romania's declared objective is to be a regional leader in implementing Sustainable Development goals. Based on the results obtained on data available in 2020, a set of recommendations was developed to reach the proposed target for 2030. Analyzing the sustainable development indicators for EU and Romania against the new EU 2030 Agenda. The paper provides an overview of the Sustainable development of Romania. Its main indicators are compared against the values at EU level, resulting in relevant recommendations that can be implemented to meet the goals of EU 2030 Agenda.

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The Financing Framework for Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies: The Case of Uruguay

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11041059 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 1059 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Nicolás Gambetta ◽

Paula Azadian ◽

Victoria Hourcade ◽

María Reyes

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Public Sector ◽

Emerging Economies ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Emerging Economy ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

The Public ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Development Goals

This paper explores the financing framework for sustainable development in Uruguay, an emerging economy, and examines whether available financing instruments contribute to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in which significant progress is still required in this country. Reports, policy documents and academic literature were reviewed to determine the types of sustainable development financing instruments available, and to analyse the challenges facing emerging economies in this regard. In addition, the financing programmes available from the public sector, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the financial sector and multilateral credit agencies were examined. The results obtained show that the main financing sources for sustainable development are located within the public sector due to the absence of a developed financial market, and that the existing financial instruments do not address the SDGs where most attention is required. The latter circumstances make it challenging to achieve these SDGs in Uruguay. The study findings highlight the need for greater coordination among all parties to make efficient use of the scarce resources available to an emerging economy and thus enable it to meet its SDGs.

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Seeking consensus on universal health coverage indicators in the sustainable development goals

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy ◽

10.1177/1355819617704676 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 178-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jennifer Reddock

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Universal Health Coverage ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Health Coverage ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Indicators ◽

Development Goals ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

Methodological Aspects ◽

Universal Health

There is optimism that the inclusion of universal health coverage in the Sustainable Development Goals advances its prominence in global and national health policy. However, formulating indicators for Target 3.8 through the Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Indicators has been challenging. Achieving consensus on the conceptual and methodological aspects of universal health coverage is likely to take some time in multi-stakeholder fora compared with national efforts to select indicators.

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Policy priority inference: A computational framework to analyze the allocation of resources for the sustainable development goals

Data & Policy ◽

10.1017/dap.2020.18 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

Author(s):

Omar A. Guerrero ◽

Gonzalo Castañeda

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Policy Coherence ◽

Computational Framework ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Indicators ◽

Policy Interventions ◽

Development Indicator ◽

Development Goals ◽

Policy Priority

Abstract We build a computational framework to support the planning of development and the evaluation of budgetary strategies toward the 2030 Agenda. The methodology takes into account some of the complexities of the political economy underpinning the policymaking process: the multidimensionality of development, the interlinkages between these dimensions, and the inefficiencies of policy interventions, as well as institutional factors that promote or discourage these inefficiencies. The framework is scalable and usable even with limited publicly available information: development-indicator data. However, it can be further refined as more data becomes available, for example, on public expenditure. We demonstrate its usage through an application for the Mexican federal government. For this, we infer historical policy priorities, that is, the non-observable allocations of transformative resources that generated past changes in development indicators. We also show how to use the tool to assess the feasibility of development goals, to measure policy coherence, and to identify accelerators. Overall, the framework and its computational tools allow policymakers and other stakeholders to embrace a complexity (and a quantitative) view to tackle the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Artificial Intelligence in the Industry 4.0, and Its Impact on Poverty, Innovation, Infrastructure Development, and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Emerging Economies?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13115788 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 5788

Author(s):

David Mhlanga

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Emerging Economies ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Innovation Infrastructure ◽

Development Goals

Artificial intelligence in the fourth industrial revolution is beginning to live up to its promises of delivering real value necessitated by the availability of relevant data, computational ability, and algorithms. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the influence of artificial intelligence on the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals with a direct focus on poverty reduction, goal one, industry, innovation, and infrastructure development goal 9, in emerging economies. Using content analysis, the result pointed to the fact that artificial intelligence has a strong influence on the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals particularly on poverty reduction, improvement of the certainty and reliability of infrastructure like transport making economic growth and development possible in emerging economies. The results revealed that Artificial intelligence is making poverty reduction possible through improving the collection of poverty-related data through poverty maps, revolutionizing agriculture education and the finance sector through financial inclusion. The study also discovered that AI is also assisting a lot in education, and the financial sector allowing the previously excluded individuals to be able to participate in the mainstream economy. Therefore, it is important that governments in emerging economies need to invest more in the use of AI and increase the research related to it so that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to innovation, infrastructure development, poverty reduction are attained.

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The Emerging Future

Blockchain Technology for Global Social Change - Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9578-6.ch010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 229-239

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Emerging Economies ◽

Social Impact ◽

International Institutions ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Governance Challenges ◽

Development Goals ◽

High Level

This chapter draws together the various chapters of the book, summarising the high-level points from each. It highlights how Blockchain and other frontier technologies will be an important tool for social impact globally. A renewed focus and promise on emerging economies is highlighted as they now have a way to access knowledge, talent, capital, and to share their talent and ideas and to seek global investment in ways that were not possible before. Some of the policy and governance challenges which will emerge from Blockchain economies are raised as well as the need for more research and discovery. It reinforces the links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ways that Blockchain and frontier technologies can exponentiate impact towards the SDGs and should be a focus of governments, international institutions, and indeed, the entire ecosystem.

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Romania

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11072156 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 2156 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Daniela Firoiu ◽

George H. Ionescu ◽

Anca Băndoi ◽

Nicoleta Mihaela Florea ◽

Elena Jianu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

National Level ◽

Well Being ◽

The European Union ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Indicators ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

Development Goals ◽

Implementation Status

Romania needs a change of the current development paradigm to face the challenges of the 21st century. As a member of the European Union, leaders in Romania are is interested in implementing the principles of sustainable development at a national level to reduce development gaps, to increase citizens’ well-being, and to preserve a clean environment. The purpose of this research is to determine the implementation status of the 2030 Agenda sustainable development goals (SDG) in Romania and to explore to what extent Romania will be able to reach, for the 2030 horizon, EU average values for the selected indicators. The research is based on 107 indicators that monitored the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Eurostat database (sustainable development indicators) was the source of data in terms of their availability and integrity. The research results showed that the implementation status of SDG is sub-optimal. In the case of 40 indicators out of the 107 analyzed, forecasts indicate the possibility of reaching the EU average values by 2030. However, the country can remain on the path to sustainable development only by involving all stakeholders and increasing concrete and well-targeted measures to improve SDG indicators.

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Interpretation of Sustainable Development Using a Set of Macroeconomic and Social Indicators for a Group of Nine Emerging Economies

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11113095 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 3095

Author(s):

Olimpia State ◽

Daniel Bulin ◽

Iulia Monica Oehler-Sincai ◽

Adrian Lucian Kanovici ◽

Maria Cristina Iorgulescu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Empirical Analysis ◽

Emerging Economies ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Social Indicators ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Development Goals ◽

And Cluster Analysis

This paper studies the evolution of the most important emerging economies between 2002 and 2017 by estimating their capacity to implement the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. In the existing literature there are only a few studies aiming to estimate the capacity of emerging countries to implement the sustainable development goals and demonstrate how groups are performing in the achievement of these goals. Being aware of the strengths and weaknesses of such studies, the authors identified a group of nine countries by applying as the main criterion the size of the economy, reflected by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in current prices, taking into account the level registered in 2017. From a methodological point of view, the study was conducted through three stages: data collection and processing; empirical analysis and correlation testing; and cluster analysis using Statistica software (10.0, StatSoft, Tulsa OK, USA). The results of this investigation highlighted that all of the nine examined countries have the attributes needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, based on the qualitative and quantitative analysed indicators. Furthermore, the nine countries have already developed measures and adopted national strategies to implement the 2030 Agenda, with political will being also a relevant factor in this regard. This study provides a framework for theoretical and empirical analysis that could also be used in the future, whereby both the number of countries and the timeframe taken into account could be increased in order to identify new development trends for emerging economies.

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Desain kurikulum mikro sustainable development goals di sekolah menengah pertama

Jurnal EDUCATIO Jurnal Pendidikan Indonesia ◽

10.29210/120212936 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 38

Author(s):

Annisa Fitri ◽

Rudi Susilana

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Science Teachers ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Development Indicators ◽

Sustainable Development Indicators ◽

Learning Evaluation ◽

Development Goals ◽

Content Design ◽

Further Development ◽

Teacher's Perception

The implementation of values of sustainable development is an important requirement to prepare future generations.Seeing these needs, it is necessary to design a micro curriculum on sustainable development values. Researchers analyzed the perceptions of 241 science teachers in West Java about the urgency of SD (Sustainable Development) indicators into content that students must learn. The topic of waste pollution and renewable energy are the chosen materials to be studied. Teacher's perception of the urgency of the material indicators can be said to be homogeneous. After that, the researcher made a content design for implementing this curriculum. Three validators who are experienced science teachers provide a constructive evaluation of the content and learning evaluation components.Learning evaluation is expected to be varied by including non-test components to achieve SD competence which emphasizes psychomotor and affective aspects.This curriculum content design already has goals that are in accordance with the expected sustainable development competencies, but the material content and evaluation components need further development.

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Monitoring sustainable development in Brazil through a composite index

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss3.1349 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 74-84

Author(s):

Bruna A. Branchi ◽

Letícia Lixandrão

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

United Nations ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Composite Index ◽

Data Availability ◽

The Other ◽

Development Indicators ◽

Sustainable Development Indicators ◽

2030 Agenda ◽

Development Goals

Sustainable development indicators gained visibility with the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. At the same time, two basic problems became relevant: data availability and results communication. The present study aims to deal with both of them by proposing a Sustainable Development (SD) Index for Brazil. Collecting data for such composite index gave the opportunity for facing the data problems: availability and frequency mainly. On the other side, by comparing the Brazilian SD Index in 2001 and 2015, it is possible to show its efficacy in monitoring and easiness in communicating the progress, as well as problems, a country faces in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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