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Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance
Authors: Thore Sten, Tarverdyan Ruzanna
Language: EnglishSubject for Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance:
312 p. · 15.2x22.8 cm · Paperback
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This book offers a balanced and holistic paradigm for evaluating progress of the SDGs, assisting the convergence of national and international efforts toward economic development, social progress, and environmental protection.
Part I: Multi-dimensional Analysis Overview 1. Economic growth and sustainability 2. Diagnostics for economic and social policy 3. Before and after the pandemic: a dashboard of sustainable development goal metrics for assessing individual well-being 4. Disequilibrium and chaos 5. The founding fathers of data envelopment analysis Epilogue GAMS Program
PART II A Geneva Consensus 6. Beyond Gross Domestic Product 7. Beyond the Washington Consensus 8. Toward a Sustainable Globalization 9. Toward a Geneva Consensus 10. Toward a new social contract
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.
- 2023 PROSE Awards - Winner: Category: Single and Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in Social Sciences: Association of American Publishers
- Includes novel tools, procedures, diagnostics, and metrics for evaluating the entire spectrum of SDGs in a wide variety of settings
- Ranks nations according to their social and economic performance, based on each nation's unique resource and output indicators
- Examines international efforts toward shaping a new Social Contract between global partners
- Delivers a new Calculus of Consent: Logical foundation for forging Geneva Consensus for Sustainable Development