Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance provides a quantitative and analytical framework for evaluating social, economic, and environmental policies aiming at the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Continuing their earlier work on multidimensional analysis, the authors demonstrate how nations can be ranked in terms of their performance in meeting a given set of SDGs, providing numerical calculation of SDGs deficit. Their calculations show that even before the arrival of the COVID-19 virus, there existed in several large Western nations undetected pockets of SDG deficits, such as in the care for the elderly, personal safety, and hygiene. Extending the calculations to cover COVID-19 data for 2020, it turns out that the same deficit nations also suffered excess death rates caused by the virus.
This book offers a balanced and holistic paradigm for evaluating progress of the SDGs, assisting the convergence of national and international efforts toward economic development, social progress, and environmental protection.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Multi-dimensional Analysis Overview 1. Economic growth and sustainability 2. Diagnostics for economic and social policy 3. Before and after the pandemic: a dashboard of sustainable development goal metrics for assessing individual well-being 4. Disequilibrium and chaos 5. The founding fathers of data envelopment analysis Epilogue GAMS Program
PART II A Geneva Consensus 6. Beyond Gross Domestic Product 7. Beyond the Washington Consensus 8. Toward a Sustainable Globalization 9. Toward a Geneva Consensus 10. Toward a new social contract