Indicator‐based assessment of local and regional progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): An integrated approach from Romania

Abstract

In order to measure progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, 169 targets have been approved globally. Even though interest in implementing these goals is high, many states have not yet established a set of subnational indicators to measure the implementation of the SDGs and have not completed their own assessment of progress in achieving these global goals. This study aims to measure the progress toward achieving the SDG at local and regional level in Romania by calculating the SDG Index. For the calculation of the SDG Index at subnational level, we propose an integrated approach based on 90 indicators, stored and processed in a PostgreSQL object-relational database. The results show the concentration of the highest performances of sustainable development in some specific geographical areas. The rural areas and the extended peripheral regions in the eastern and southern part of the country are the poorest performers.

Growth pole policy, spatial transformation and spatial inequalities in the metropolitan areas of Romania

“…Sub-national regional inequalities in the European Union (EU) have registered an increasing trend during the last two decades (Amarante 2014;Benedek et al 2021). Studies examining the economic convergence showed that economic growth has been much higher in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries with a more homogenous spatial structure and a lower level of initial GDP per capita (Benedek, Kocziszky 2015;Ivan et al 2020b).…”

A magyar megyék gazdasági fejlődési pályáinak összehasonlító vizsgálata

“…A regionális tudomány az 1970-es évektől vállalkozik ex ante típusú elemzésekre (köppel, 1979), amelyeket elsősorban terüle- ti szintű munkaerőpiaci (Hampel et al, 2007;Longi, Nijkamp, 2006;Hernandez-Murillo, Owyang, 2006) kibocsátásra és a konjuktúrára vonatkozó (Chizzolini et al, 2008;Capello, Fratesi, 2012;Hentzel et al, 2015) fenntarthatósági (Benedek et al, 2020) vizsgálatokban alkalmaznak.…”

Comparative Analysis of the Economic Development Paths of Hungarian Counties

“…since the 1970s, regional science has undertaken ex ante analyses (Köppel, 1979), which have been used mainly in sustainability studies (Benedek et al, 2020) of labour market output (Hampel et al, 2007;Longi, Nijkamp, 2006;Hernandez-Murillo, owyang, 2006) and conjuncture (chizzolini et al, 2008;capello, Fratesi, 2012;Hentzel et al, 2015) at the regional level.…”