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.

Analysis of the Relationship between Tourist Demand and Sustainable Development Indicators in the Context of the Danube River in the Romanian Trajectory

Practice has shown that tourism is an activity with a global spread, and sustainable development being a concept with global applicability, the intersection of the two elements is considered inevitable. Both elements are commensurable, which makes it possible to study them and analyze the relationships that arise from cohabitation in the economic and social environment. The purpose of this study is to find out to what extent the variation of tourism demand is influenced by the variation of some indicators of sustainable development. A multifactorial regression model was used, in which the number of tourists represents the dependent variable, and the number of unemployed, the natural increase of the population and the existing accommodation capacity are independent variables. For data processing, the Eviews statistical software was used. The greatest impact on the number of tourists is manifested by the existing accommodation capacity, and overall, the variation of the dependent variable is explained in proportion of 83% by the variation of the independent variables.

Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development: Some International Evidence

This paper examines episodes of fiscal expansion and tightening in Chile, Poland, South Africa, and Thailand, and their association with sustainable development indicators.

Analyzing the relationship between sustainable development indicators and renewable energy consumption

The transition to renewable energy sources remains a major challenge for developed and developing countries. Therefore, the study aims at investigating the relationship between sustainable development indicators and renewable energy consumption utilizing integrated data sets for 255 indicators expressing the sustainable development goals from 137 developed and developing countries. Principal component analysis then multiple linear regression tests are employed to conclude a mathematical model representing the numerical relationship between a set of sustainable development indicators and renewable energy consumption. The statistical analysis results include (i) an inverse correlation between Sustainable Development Index which expresses the dominant factor representing collected data and renewable energy consumption, (ii) a set of sustainable development indicators as the determinants of renewable energy consumption. The findings explain the rapid transformation of low Sustainable Development Index countries towards renewable energy technology by realizing the effective role of using renewable energy as a local solution. Moreover, the findings manifest the importance of the given sustainable development indicators in obtaining a more significant increase in renewable energy consumption. Using the concluded mathematical mode, planners and decision-makers can compromise the concluded indicators to attain a serious progressing step towards renewable energy transition aligned with achieving sustainable development.

Práticas sustentáveis como ações para promoção da saúde do adolescente

Introdução: A adolescência é caraterizada como um período de construção sócio-histórica, com manifestações fortemente influenciadas pelos fatores socioeconômicos, políticos e culturais do meio onde o adolescente vive. Desta forma, destaque para elaboração e construção de políticas que direcione para práticas promotoras de saúde. Objetivo: Analisar as práticas sustentáveis utilizadas para fortalecer ações promotoras de saúde para adolescentes alinhadas ao Objetivo do Desenvolvimento Sustentável 3. Método: Revisão integrativa, realizada no período de janeiro de 2020. O cruzamento foi realizado no Portal de Periódicos da CAPES, com uso dos descritores em saúde: Sustainable Development, Health Care, Adolescent, Sustainable Development Indicators, nas bases de dados MEDLINE, LILASC, W Web of Science, Scielo. Elencou como critérios inclusão: trabalhos completos, disponíveis e nos idiomas português, inglês e espanhol. Como critérios de exclusão: artigos que não disponibilizarem resumos, editoriais, reflexões teóricas, estudos duplicados, relatos de experiência, resenhas, monografias e resumos em anais de eventos. Todos os cruzamentos foram realizados em língua estrangeira, idioma inglês, com o uso do operador booleano AND. A amostra final foi composta por final de 12 artigos. Resultados: Aponta a implementação práticas sustentáveis ao público adolescente que possa romper com uma assistência em saúde pontual e fragmentada, ressaltando a ampliação de práticas voltadas para o acesso aos serviços de saúde que possa de fato atender as suas reais necessidades de saúde, programas de geração de renda, e adoção de alimentação saudável, equidade nos serviços de saúde e educação em saúde. Evidencia que a implementação de práticas sustentáveis se apresenta como uma ferramenta para se alcançar a promoção da saúde e como uma mudança de paradigma na assistência a saúde do adolescente. Conclusão: Verificou a necessidade de políticas e ações em saúde para o adolescente que possa contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma assistência em saúde voltadas para a promoção em saúde. Assim, evidencia a necessidade de ruptura de práticas de saúde pontuais com foco apenas na doença, tornando um desafio o desenvolvimento de práticas sustentáveis ao adolescente quanto a mudanças de ações em uma perspectiva promotora de saúde.

Desain kurikulum mikro sustainable development goals di sekolah menengah pertama

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.

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN FINANCIAL INDICATORS OF COMPANIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS

One of the main objectives of sustainable development is to improve living standards and obtain a friendlier business environment, by increasing their competitiveness and performance and the main goal of companies are to achieve a productive activity that ensures their short-term success, but also to pay attention to long-term survival. This analysis was performed to assess the influence of financial indicators of companies and their contribution on the sustainable development of the North-West region of Romania. The research follows the evolution of sustainable development and financial indicators of the sample of 37 companies listed on the BSE, with data collected from 2008-2019, covering the following sectors according to their BSE classification: manufacturing, trade, hotels, construction. In this paper is used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Among the qualitative research methods used it can be mentioned: observation, comparison and analysis of data. The econometric analysis is based on the estimation of a panel data regression technique and the decision between the random effects model and the fixed effects model was based on the Hausman test. The microeconomic indicators used to analyse the connection with the indicators of sustainable development of the North-West region of Romania are turnover, net profit and the average number of employees used as independent variables and the indicators selected based on information provided by the National Institute of Statistics for the North-West region, called Territorial Sustainable Development Indicators, are the following: Regional Gross Domestic Product, GDP per inhabitant, economically active population, the employment rate of the working age population, the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate used as dependent variables. The results of the correlation analysis of the parameters showed a weak, insignificant influence between the financial indicators and the sustainable development indicators, the observed data do not allow the identification of a valid linear model.

An Assessment of the Relationship between Defence Expenditure and Sustainable Development in the Baltic Countries

As geopolitical instability increases and new threats emerge, a number of countries are increasing their respective allocations for defence expenditure in order to take greater responsibility for their citizens in terms of defending and protecting their values and way of life. Small states such as Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia must evaluate certain economic, political, and strategic factors when increasing their respective defence expenditure. While they do tend to increase expenditure on national defence matters, budgetary constraints often force them to cut funding in some civilian domains or to increase their borrowing on international markets. Therefore, the security and defence of small states must be addressed in an integrated way, taking into account economic, social, and environmental factors. The aim of this article is to assess the relationships between defence expenditure and sustainable development indicators during the period between 2000 and 2018 in the Baltic states. The authors of this article aimed to determine which sustainable development indicators have a significant impact upon a country’s expenditure when it comes to defence matters. The study was conducted using econometric methods, including Spearman’s correlation analysis and Automatic Linear Modelling (ALM). The research results revealed some differences amongst the Baltic countries. In Lithuania, the employment rate and R&D personnel as a share of the active population demonstrated a significant impact upon defence expenditure. In Latvia, defence expenditure was found to be affected by disposable household income per capita and environmental taxes as a share of total tax revenue. In Estonia, defence expenditure was mainly influenced by disposable household income per capita and energy import dependency. The study’s findings may be used to ensure both the security of the country and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.