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.
1. Introduction - p. xiii 2. Part I: Multi-dimensional Analysis By Sten Thore - p. xix 3. Economic growth and sustainability - p. 5 4. Chapter Two. Diagnostics for economic and social policy - p. 23 5. Chapter Three. Before and after the pandemic: a dashboard of sustainable development goal metrics for assessing individual well-being - p. 45 6. Chapter Four. Disequilibrium and chaos - p. 69 7. Chapter Five. The founding fathers of data envelopment analysis: A. Charnes and W.W. Cooper - p. 81 8. Part II: A Geneva Consensus By Ruzanna Tarverdyan - p. xcvii 9. Chapter Six. Beyond Gross Domestic Product - p. 101 10. Chapter Seven. Beyond the Washington Consensus - p. 115 11. Chapter Eight. Toward a sustainable globalization - p. 127 12. Chapter Nine. Toward a Geneva Consensus - p. 139 13. Chapter Ten. Toward a new social contract - p. 221 14. References - p. 267 15. Index - p. 283
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.
1. Introduction - p. xiii 2. Part I: Multi-dimensional Analysis By Sten Thore - p. xix 3. Economic growth and sustainability - p. 5 4. Chapter Two. Diagnostics for economic and social policy - p. 23 5. Chapter Three. Before and after the pandemic: a dashboard of sustainable development goal metrics for assessing individual well-being - p. 45 6. Chapter Four. Disequilibrium and chaos - p. 69 7. Chapter Five. The founding fathers of data envelopment analysis: A. Charnes and W.W. Cooper - p. 81 8. Part II: A Geneva Consensus By Ruzanna Tarverdyan - p. xcvii 9. Chapter Six. Beyond Gross Domestic Product - p. 101 10. Chapter Seven. Beyond the Washington Consensus - p. 115 11. Chapter Eight. Toward a sustainable globalization - p. 127 12. Chapter Nine. Toward a Geneva Consensus - p. 139 13. Chapter Ten. Toward a new social contract - p. 221 14. References - p. 267 15. Index - p. 283
