A Post-Pandemic Assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals

Staff Discussion Notes, April 27, 2021

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• Authors: Dora Benedek, Edward R Gemayel, Abdelhak S Senhadji, Alexander F. Tieman
• Published: April 27, 2021
• Series: Staff Discussion Notes
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498314909.006

Overview

• Title: A Post-Pandemic Assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals
• Authors: Dora Benedek, Edward R Gemayel, Abdelhak S Senhadji, Alexander F. Tieman
• Publication type: Staff Discussion Notes No. 2021/003
• Date: April 27, 2021
• Pages: 34
• Volume: 2021
• Issue: 003
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498314909.006
• ISBN: 9781498314909
• ISSN: 2617-6750
• Stock No: SDNEA2021003

Key findings

• The COVID-19 pandemic "hit countries’ development agendas hard."
• The ensuing recession has:
  • "pushed millions into extreme poverty"
  • "shrunk government resources available for spending on achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."
• The note assesses the "current state of play on funding SDGs in five key development areas: education, health, roads, electricity, and water and sanitation."
• The assessment uses "a newly developed dynamic macroeconomic framework."

Thematic scope and subjects

• Primary subjects covered:
  • COVID-19
  • Development
  • Economic sectors
  • Emerging and frontier financial markets
  • Financial crises
  • Financial markets
  • Health
  • Human capital
  • Infrastructure
  • Labor
  • National accounts
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
• Keywords include:
  • analysis of development strategy
  • case study countries' SDG spending
  • composite index
  • COVID-19
  • Development
  • Emerging and frontier financial markets
  • financing gap
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Global
  • Human capital
  • Infrastructure
  • policy option
  • SDG performance
  • Structural Reform
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Methodology

• Uses a "newly developed dynamic macroeconomic framework" to assess funding for SDGs across five development areas:
  • education
  • health
  • roads
  • electricity
  • water and sanitation

Publication notes

• This Staff Discussion Note "represents the views of the authors and does not necessarily represent IMF views or IMF policy."
• The views expressed "should be attributed to the authors and not to the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management."
• Staff Discussion Notes are published "to elicit comments and to further debate."

Source: A Post-Pandemic Assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals, Staff Discussion Notes 2021, 003 (April 27, 2021), Dora Benedek; Edward R Gemayel; Abdelhak S Senhadji; Alexander F. Tieman.

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