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9780323902687: Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance
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ISBN 10: 0323902685 ISBN 13: 9780323902687
Editorial: Elsevier, 2021

Sinopsis

Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance provides novel tools, procedures, diagnostics and metrics for evaluating the entire spectrum of SDGs. The book discusses the relationships between social and economic policy instruments and their intended goals, examining the international efforts to mobilize resources and partnership for global sustainable development. Users will find this book presents a balanced and holistic paradigm for evaluating the progress of SDGs, transcending the existing standard measures of performance to assist the convergence of national and international efforts toward economic development, social progress and environmental protection.

  • Delivers a benchmarking tool for identifying best transformation practices
  • Demonstrates metrics usage in a wide variety of settings
  • Ranks individual social and economic performance based on each country's unique resource and output indicators

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Acerca de los autores

Sten Thore was installed as a Centennial Fellow of the University of Texas on the occasion of the centennial celebrations of the university in 1983, and was recognized as a Centennial Fellow Emeritus on his retirement, having served the university for 20 years. Moving to Lisbon, Portugal he was appointed to the Luso-American chair in the Commercialization of Science and Technology at the Institute Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and eventually settled in the northern hills of the Algarve. In 2012 he was awarded a PhD Jubilarem by the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Ruzanna Tarverdyan is President of The Geneva Consensus Foundation, which under her leadership gained Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Social and Economic Council. She is an economist-mathematician with 30 years of professional work. She served the government of Armenia, holding senior positions in the ministries of finance and economy (Trade and Investment Department, Audit Department, Armenian Aid Coordination Center, Government's Tender Board) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) as a research economist in Moscow and at the Geneva headquarters. She has taught at the ILO International Training Center at Turin, Italy, and she is a member of the editorial board of several international journals.

De la contraportada

Using Data Envelopment Analysis techniques to analyze the social-economic policies of nations, How to Measure Progress on the UN's SDGs provides novel tools, procedures, diagnostics, and metrics for evaluating the entire spectrum of SDGs. The book discusses the relationships between social and economic policy instruments and their intended goals, examining the international efforts to mobilize resources and partnership for global sustainable development. How to Measure Progress on the UN's SDGs offers a balanced and holistic paradigm for evaluating progress of the SDGs, transcending the existing standard measures of performance to assist the convergence of national and international efforts toward economic development, social progress, and environmental protection.

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Editorial
Elsevier
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0323902685
ISBN 13 
9780323902687
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
312
Contacto del fabricante
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