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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why is South Asia performing so badly on the SDGs? -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

Why is South Asia performing so badly on the SDGs? -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

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published Published on Mar 31, 2019   modified Modified on Mar 31, 2019
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The SDGs were obviously incredibly ambitious – far more so than the Millennium Development Goals that they succeeded – and so it was indeed a remarkable achievement that governments of almost all countries signed up to them. There were no less than 17 very significant and substantive goals, each containing multiple targets, and each target relying often on more than one indicator. And these goals and targets are not simply extrapolations of past trends (as several of the MDGs were). Rather, some of them present formidable challenges, since they require a reversal of the prior trends, such as reducing inequalities, or creating sustainable patterns of consumption and production and acting against climate change.

Also, it is only a few years since these goals were adopted by the international community, and therefore to expect significant progress on them already may be over-optimistic. Nevertheless, the direction and pace of change towards meeting these goals is important. South Asia (and particularly India) was something of a laggard in meeting the MDGs, other than those relating to income poverty – and if current trends are considered, the problems are even greater with respect to the SDGs. The most recent available data suggest that the regions is very far from being on track to achieve most goals, and in some cases and for certain goals, the direction of change is the opposite of what is required.

Performance on the SDGs is being measured by one effort that scores countries out of 100 (as the target or best possible outcome to be on track to meeting the SDGs) and currently Sweden performs best with a score of 85. Figure 1 shows that South Asian countries are well below that, with even the best performing of them (Bhutan) scoring below the global median of 66.2. Both performance and progress towards these goals appears to have little to do with levels of per capita income or degree of development. India, which is not only the largest and most diversified economy in the region but also prides itself on rapid income growth rates and hopes to emerge as a potential leader of the world economy, performs very poorly even in relation to other South Asian countries. Bhutan and Nepal – both landlocked countries at lower levels of development – show better ranks and significantly higher scores.

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NetworkIdeas.org, 28 March, 2019, http://www.networkideas.org/featured-articles/2019/03/why-is-south-asia-performing-so-badly-on-the-sdgs/


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