Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance
- 1st Edition - November 27, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Sten Thore, Ruzanna Tarverdyan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 2 6 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 2 6 9 - 4
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Request a sales quoteMeasuring 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.
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.
- 2023 PROSE Awards - Winner: Category: Single and Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in Social Sciences: Association of American Publishers
- Includes novel tools, procedures, diagnostics, and metrics for evaluating the entire spectrum of SDGs in a wide variety of settings
- Ranks nations according to their social and economic performance, based on each nation's unique resource and output indicators
- Examines international efforts toward shaping a new Social Contract between global partners
- Delivers a new Calculus of Consent: Logical foundation for forging Geneva Consensus for Sustainable Development
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Recent initiatives
- Analytical treatment
- The COVID-19 challenge and the Great Reset
- Part I. Multi-dimensional Analysis By Sten Thore
- Overview
- Chapter One. Economic growth and sustainability
- 1.1. Gross domestic product and beyond
- 1.2. Doubting the blessings of economic growth
- 1.3. The millennium development goals and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
- 1.4. The SDG welfare function
- 1.5. Calculating the effectiveness of policy
- 1.6. A brief numerical look
- 1.7. The frontier
- 1.8. Subfrontier nations
- 1.9. Interpretation
- 1.10. Concluding thoughts
- Chapter Two. Diagnostics for economic and social policy
- 2.1. International initiatives
- 2.2. Tinbergen on economic policy
- 2.3. Goals of economic and social policy
- 2.4. The policy parameters
- 2.5. The effectiveness of economic and social policy
- 2.6. Data envelopment analysis
- 2.7. Constructing the frontier
- 2.8. The mathematics of data envelopment analysis
- Chapter Three. Before and after the pandemic: a dashboard of sustainable development goal metrics for assessing individual well-being
- 3.1. Dimensions of individual well-being
- 3.2. Successes and failures
- 3.3. The political impact of the sustainable development goals
- 3.4. The list of policy instruments
- 3.5. A first look at the computing results: Pareto optimal OECD nations
- 3.6. Disequilibrium: the deficit countries
- 3.7. Asking questions
- 3.8. The COVID-19 pandemic: a tentative cognitive map of causes and effects
- 3.9. Official measures of the spread of the virus
- 3.10. A numerical illustration: expanded frontier calculations incorporating the virus survival rate as a sustainable development goal indicator
- Chapter Four. Disequilibrium and chaos
- 4.1. Path-dependency, lock-in, evolution, creative destruction
- 4.2. Diffusion, self-organization, and chaos
- 4.3. Dissipative processes and disequilibrium
- 4.4. The arrow of time
- Chapter Five. The founding fathers of data envelopment analysis: A. Charnes and W.W. Cooper
- 5.1. The early days of linear programming
- 5.2. Goal programming
- 5.3. Three friends closing ranks
- 5.4. Data envelopment analysis
- Epilogue
- 1. On the shortcomings of mainstream economic theory
- 2. On the impuissance of COVID-19 policy
- GAMS Program
- Part II. A Geneva Consensus By Ruzanna Tarverdyan
- Chapter Six. Beyond Gross Domestic Product
- 6.1. Recognizing the limitations of Gross Domestic Product
- 6.2. The search for a more meaningful metric
- 6.3. Recent progress
- 6.4. An indicator pyramid
- 6.5. Composite indicators
- 6.6. Empirical production/transformation functions
- 6.7. Why data envelopment analysis?
- Chapter Seven. Beyond the Washington Consensus
- 7.1. The Washington Consensus
- 7.2. The Washington Consensus criticized
- 7.3. Post-Washington Consensus
- 7.4. The Barcelona Development Agenda
- 7.5. The way forward
- Chapter Eight. Toward a sustainable globalization
- 8.1. Challenges of globalization
- 8.2. The social dimension of globalization
- 8.3. Widening inequalities
- 8.4. The Oxford Martin Commission
- 8.5. Globalization and poverty
- 8.6. Partnerships for sustainable globalization
- 8.7. Social assessment
- Chapter Nine. Toward a Geneva Consensus
- 9.1. Sustainability and trade-offs
- 9.2. What should economists do?
- 9.3. Bridging the gap between science and policy
- 9.4. Rating country performance by frontier analysis
- 9.5. Data envelopment analysis dual framework, utility maximization, and exchange
- 9.6. Measuring sustainable development goals performance in the age of globalization
- 9.7. Agenda 2030 in post-COVID-19 global reset
- 9.8. The Geneva Consensus Foundation: a tribute to William W. Cooper
- 9.9. Geneva Consensus global decision-making system
- 9.10. Data revolution
- 9.11. Way forward: a quest for a new paradigm
- Chapter Ten. Toward a new social contract
- 10.1. Policy failures and the quest for shared prosperity
- 10.2. The UN reform: from Versailles to Geneva and New York
- 10.3. Beyond a broken social contract
- 10.4. The Calculus of consent, group rationality, and Pareto optimality
- 10.5. Consensus as a norm
- 10.6. A utility function nonexistent until “discovered”
- 10.7. Pareto-Koopmans optimality criteria of fairness and justice
- 10.8. Toward a new social contract for recovery and resilience
- 10.9. Why “Geneva Consensus”?
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 27, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 312
- No. of pages (eBook): 312
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323902687
- eBook ISBN: 9780323902694
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Sten Thore
Sten Thore was installed as a Centennial Fellow of the University of Texas on the occasion of the centennial celebrations of the university in 1983, and was recognized as a Centennial Fellow Emeritus on his retirement, having served the university for 20 years. Moving to Lisbon, Portugal he was appointed to the Luso-American chair in the Commercialization of Science and Technology at the Institute Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and eventually settled in the northern hills of the Algarve. In 2012 he was awarded a PhD Jubilarem by the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
Affiliations and expertise
Centennial Fellow Emeritus, IC2 Institute, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USART
Ruzanna Tarverdyan
Ruzanna Tarverdyan is President of The Geneva Consensus Foundation, which under her leadership gained Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Social and Economic Council. She is an economist-mathematician with 30 years of professional work. She served the government of Armenia, holding senior positions in the ministries of finance and economy (Trade and Investment Department, Audit Department, Armenian Aid Coordination Center, Government's Tender Board) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) as a research economist in Moscow and at the Geneva headquarters. She has taught at the ILO International Training Center at Turin, Italy, and she is a member of the editorial board of several international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
President, The Geneva Consensus Foundation, Geneva Area, SwitzerlandRead Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance on ScienceDirect