## A Post-Pandemic Assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals

_Staff Discussion Notes, April 27, 2021_

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## Bibliographic details
- 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

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### 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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