Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(1)

Опубликована: Авг. 31, 2024

Achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires an overall and well-balanced achievement of all SDGs rather than cherry-picking a few. While it is vital to assess evenness achievement, such analysis, particularly on global scale, still evidently absent from existing literature. To remedy scholarly gap, this paper measures for 193 countries 2010 2019 by adapting assessment method originating ecology biodiversity Our analyses regarding country-level SDG index scores (EIS) indicate significant heterogeneity across countries. Global South usually underperform in 17 goals, while portion North also suffer unbalanced developments SDGs. By integrating into conventional monitoring framework, study identifies six development paths pursuing shows that maintaining improvements balancing each goal practical but has not taken place at least 35% We estimate average performance could further increase 3.5 p.p. 2.1 p.p., or 74 percent 50 growth baseline continue past scenario, respectively, if country follow effective path frontier counterparts with similar income levels. measures, complemented inter-temporal cross-country analyses, inform policies cooperation strategies identify weaknesses sustainable development, boost growth, protect unevenly developed Future research develop these provide deeper insights achieving rapid various

Язык: Английский