Reducing Inequality Within and Among Countries: Realizing SDG 10—A Developmental Perspective

Kühn, Heike

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30469-0_8

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“…It is time for a 'complex inequalities' (Kuhn 2020) approach which recognises that women's and men's climate vulnerabilities vary according to gender, but also ethnicity, religion, class, and age conditions. Intersectional dynamics affect women as they adapt to the impact of climate change and seek to survive climate crises (Huyer et al 2020).…”

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Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

Huyer¹,

Acosta²,

Gumucio³

et al. 2020

Gender & Development

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Emerging global crises such as climate change, massive migrations, pandemics, and environmental degradation are posing serious risks to humanity, threatening ecosystems and rural livelihoods across the globe. The poor, and especially the most marginalised among the poor, are disproportionately affected. Climate change in particular is expected to exacerbate pre-existing social inequalities, including gender inequalities. Therefore, innovative and equitable climate adaptation and mitigation strategies will be needed. This article reviews the progress so far in integrating a gender perspective into climate change policy discussions and agreements at global and national levels.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

Huyer¹,

Acosta²,

Gumucio³

et al. 2020

Gender & Development

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“…The belief that income inequality impairs well-being or health is often used to argue that achieving this Sustainable Development Goal is particularly urgent (e.g., see ref. [ 58 ]). As an example, Heinz et al [ 59 ] recently claimed in JAMA Psychiatry that the negative association between of income inequality and mental health should push policymakers to “consider different measures [to reduce] income inequality, including progressive taxation policies and basic universal income schemes” (p. E2).…”

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The effects of U.S. county and state income inequality on self-reported happiness and health are equivalent to zero

Sommet

Elliot

2022

Qual Life Res

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Purpose A popular idea in the social sciences is that contexts with high income inequality undermine people’s well-being and health. However, existing studies documenting this phenomenon typically compare a small number of higher-level units (countries/regions). Here, we use local income inequality indicators and temporal designs to provide the most highly powered test to date of the associations between income inequality and self-reported happiness and health in the USA Method We combined county-level income inequality data (county-level Gini coefficients) with the responses from the General Social Survey (GSS) Cross-sectional dataset (13,000 + participants from ≈1000 county-waves) and Panels (3 × 3000 + participants from 3 × ≈500 county-waves); we used the GSS happiness (“not too happy,” “pretty happy,” or “very happy”) and health (“poor,” “fair,” “good,” or “excellent”) variables. Results Multilevel-ordered logistic models and equivalence tests revealed that the within-county effects of income inequality on self-reported happiness and health were systematically equivalent to zero. Additional analyses revealed that the within-state effects were identical, that using alternative measures of state income inequality led to the same conclusions, and that lagged effects (between + 1 and + 12 years) were never significant and always equivalent to zero. Conclusion The present work suggests that—at least in the USA—income inequality is likely neither associated with self-reported happiness nor with self-reported health.

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“…Not surprisingly, official progress reported by the UN on SDG 10 is a challenging issue due to the complexity and impreciseness of its targets. In the 2018 Sustainable Development Report, the progress on SDG 10 is described only in an overview chapter concentrating on SDGs 10.1, 10.a, 10.b, and 10.c [187]. SDG 10 might be the data-weakest SDG, as globally available and comparable data are rare.…”

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The Contribution of Data-Driven Technologies in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

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The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out to improve the quality of life of people in developed, emerging, and developing countries by covering social and economic aspects, with a focus on environmental sustainability. At the same time, data-driven technologies influence our lives in all areas and have caused fundamental economical and societal changes. This study presents a comprehensive literature review on how data-driven approaches have enabled or inhibited the successful achievement of the 17 SDGs to date. Our findings show that data-driven analytics and tools contribute to achieving the 17 SDGs, e.g., by making information more reliable, supporting better-informed decision-making, implementing data-based policies, prioritizing actions, and optimizing the allocation of resources. Based on a qualitative content analysis, results were aggregated into a conceptual framework, including the following categories: (1) uses of data-driven methods (e.g., monitoring, measurement, mapping or modeling, forecasting, risk assessment, and planning purposes), (2) resulting positive effects, (3) arising challenges, and (4) recommendations for action to overcome these challenges. Despite positive effects and versatile applications, problems such as data gaps, data biases, high energy consumption of computational resources, ethical concerns, privacy, ownership, and security issues stand in the way of achieving the 17 SDGs.

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Reducing Inequality Within and Among Countries: Realizing SDG 10—A Developmental Perspective

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

The effects of U.S. county and state income inequality on self-reported happiness and health are equivalent to zero

The Contribution of Data-Driven Technologies in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

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