Identifying Synergies and Complementarities Between MDGs: Results from Cluster Analysis

Bue, Maria C. Lo; Klasen, Stephan

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“…The untied nature of many goals has often affected the creation of the synergies that could arise across these targets and in particular between education, health, poverty and gender. Even if acceleration in one goal is likely to improve progress in others, these synergies are not always evident, and often vary across countries ( 26 , 27 ).…”

Section: Discussion On the Effectiveness Of The Mdgsmentioning

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The Millennium Development Goals: experiences, achievements and what's next

Lomazzi

Borisch

Laaser

2014

Global Health Action

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals to be achieved by 2015 addressing poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education, gender inequality, environmental damage and the global partnership. Most activities worldwide have focused on maternal and child health and communicable diseases, while less attention has been paid to environmental sustainability and the development of a global partnership. Up to now, several targets have been at least partially achieved: hunger reduction is on track, poverty has been reduced by half, living conditions of 200 million deprived people enhanced, maternal and child mortality as well as communicable diseases diminished and education improved. Nevertheless, some goals will not be met, particularly in the poorest regions, due to different challenges (e.g. the lack of synergies among the goals, the economic crisis, etc.). The post-2015 agenda is now under discussion. The new targets, whatever they will be called, should reflect today's political situation, health and environmental challenges, and an all-inclusive, intersectoral and accountable approach should be adopted.

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Section: Discussion On the Effectiveness Of The Mdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Millennium Development Goals: experiences, achievements and what's next

Lomazzi

Borisch

Laaser

2014

Global Health Action

144

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“…But it is also the case for goals such as the maternal mortality target (less than 70/100,000 live births) or the non-communicable disease goals (reduce by 1/3), where progress will largely depend on progress among the worst off. Second, progress in one SDG facilitates progress in others, as there are many synergies and complementarities (Lo Bue and Klasen, 2015). For example, better education facilitates better health (and vice versa); clean water is closely linked to improved sanitation, both of which promote health.…”

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Leaving No one Behind: Some Conceptual and Empirical Issues

Klasen

Fleurbaey

2018

Journal of Globalization and Development

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This paper provides an overview of the conceptual and empirical issues involved in the overarching goal of “leaving no one behind” (LNOB). After reviewing some existing documents on the topic, it proposes ways to operationalize LNOB, discusses whether to take a country-focused or person-focused approach, examines various (multidimensional) ways to measure those who are left behind, argues for grounding LNOB on intrinsic and instrumental reasons, suggests ways to identify those at risk of being left behind, and discusses difficult trade-offs with other SDGs for an agenda focused on LNOB.

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“…In order to make policy happen, the dependencies among the goals in terms of potential interactions need to be evaluated, both across (Lu et al, 2015) and within the SDGs (Schmidt et al, 2015). This challenge is not new and similar concerns have been identified when attempting to align climate change adaptation and mitigation response (Smith & Olesen, 2010); poverty alleviation (Mathy & Blanchard, 2016); meeting the millennium development goals (MDGs) (Bue & Klasen, 2013); and balancing economic development, environmental sustainability, and social inclusion for human well-being (Ibisch et al, 2016;Sachs, 2012).…”

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A Systematic Study of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Interactions

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Sustainable development goals (SDGs) have set the 2030 agenda to transform our world by tackling multiple challenges humankind is facing to ensure well‐being, economic prosperity, and environmental protection. In contrast to conventional development agendas focusing on a restricted set of dimensions, the SDGs provide a holistic and multidimensional view on development. Hence, interactions among the SDGs may cause diverging results. To analyze the SDG interactions we systematize the identification of synergies and trade‐offs using official SDG indicator data for 227 countries. A significant positive correlation between a pair of SDG indicators is classified as a synergy while a significant negative correlation is classified as a trade‐off. We rank synergies and trade‐offs between SDGs pairs on global and country scales in order to identify the most frequent SDG interactions. For a given SDG, positive correlations between indicator pairs were found to outweigh the negative ones in most countries. Among SDGs the positive and negative correlations between indicator pairs allowed for the identification of particular global patterns. SDG 1 (No poverty) has synergetic relationship with most of the other goals, whereas SDG 12 (Responsible consumption and production) is the goal most commonly associated with trade‐offs. The attainment of the SDG agenda will greatly depend on whether the identified synergies among the goals can be leveraged. In addition, the highlighted trade‐offs, which constitute obstacles in achieving the SDGs, need to be negotiated and made structurally nonobstructive by deeper changes in the current strategies.

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Identifying Synergies and Complementarities Between MDGs: Results from Cluster Analysis

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

The Millennium Development Goals: experiences, achievements and what's next

The Millennium Development Goals: experiences, achievements and what's next

Leaving No one Behind: Some Conceptual and Empirical Issues

A Systematic Study of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Interactions

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