Measuring countries’ progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: methodology and challenges

Shinwell, Michal; Cohen, Guillaume

doi:10.1007/s40844-019-00132-6

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“…Commentators have debated whether the goals and targets set too little or too great an ambition (e.g., on different aspects, Fletcher & Rammelt, 2017;Winkler, 2018). Methodological challenges remain around their measurement (Mugellini et al, 2021;Shinwell & Cohen, 2020), raising questions whether the SDGs are genuinely measurable at all (Rodríguez-Antón et al, 2022).…”

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The sustainable development goals: governing by goals, targets and indicators

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How do the goals, targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as governance instruments in efforts to achieve the SDGs by 2030? This perspective addresses this question in three sections. First, it develops an account of how we should understand governance for the SDGs that highlights the role of targets and indicators, but also institutions and norms, in this model of ‘soft’ governance. Second, it then offers a brief assessment of how the SDGs have worked as governance innovation since 2015, highlighting changes in the infrastructure of the SDGs and some national contexts, but also limitations. This section also considers the place of national ownership as a principle, integral to the SDGs, which constrains the transformative potential of the goals and targets. A final section considers how elements and mechanisms of SDG governance might be developed further. It points toward the importance of scaling up pockets of innovation and goal achievement across jurisdictions and levels of governance, while raising questions about expectations for SDG achievement beyond 2030.

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The sustainable development goals: governing by goals, targets and indicators

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2023

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“…The symposium aimed to bring together students and researchers with their latest academic research to facilitate a wider public discussion (Ikeda 2020a). Seven papers (Chabay 2020); (Shinwell 2020); (Ikeda 2020b); (Tokumaru 2020); (Nakamoto et al 2020); (Nomura 2020); (Yoshikawa et al 2020) have been published in the special issue: The 7th International Symposium on Human Survivability "Let's Work Together Toward Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals"-Part I, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2020. The following are brief summaries of the other four papers that were major outcomes of the symposium.…”

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