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SDG Indicators and BS/Index: The Power of Numbers in the Sustainable Development Debate

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  • Roberto Bissio

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Four years after the adoption of the SDGs, measuring progress towards them has been elusive. The ‘silo approach’ of pursuing each goal independently is stretched to its limit by the official Global Indicators Framework trying to count for each target, but lacking data or even agreed methodology for more than half of them. On the other hand, the attempt to reduce progress towards the SDGs to a single number ends up ignoring the many trade-offs between well-being associated to material consumption and planetary boundaries.

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  • Roberto Bissio, 2019. "SDG Indicators and BS/Index: The Power of Numbers in the Sustainable Development Debate," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 62(1), pages 81-85, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:62:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1057_s41301-019-00202-7
    DOI: 10.1057/s41301-019-00202-7
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    Cited by:

    1. Custodio, Henry M. & Hadjikakou, Michalis & Bryan, Brett A., 2023. "A review of socioeconomic indicators of sustainability and wellbeing building on the social foundations framework," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
    2. Hametner, Markus, 2022. "Economics without ecology: How the SDGs fail to align socioeconomic development with environmental sustainability," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).

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