IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ers/journl/vxxivy2021i3p918-933.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Indicator Analysis for the Development of EU Countries in Relation to Sustainable Development

Author

Listed:
  • Joanna Wyrwa
  • Anetta Barska
  • Janina Jedrzejczak-Gas

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the differentiation in the level of economic development among the EU Member States in the context of the progress in implementing the concept of sustainable development. Design/Methodology/Approach: The time scope of the analysis involved the years 2014 and 2019, and the territorial one covered 27 EU countries. The research procedure used data from Eurostat and methods of descriptive statistics were applied, i.e. minimum value, maximum value, average, coefficient of variation. Findings: The discussion led to the identification and application of indicators that enable describing economic development in the context of sustainable development of the EU-27 countries in 2014 and 2019. Based on the presented results, it can be concluded that positive changes are taking place in many countries that are getting closer to the implementation of the sustainable development paradigm, which is one of the main priorities of the Europe 2020 Strategy: the long-term socio-economic program of the EU. Practical Implications: The results of the analysis conducted may contribute to the assessment of the effects of the development policy pursued in the EU-27 countries so far. Originality/value: Indicator analysis of the economy development of EU countries in the context of the implementation of the concept of sustainable development is not often undertaken in scientific research.

Suggested Citation

  • Joanna Wyrwa & Anetta Barska & Janina Jedrzejczak-Gas, 2021. "An Indicator Analysis for the Development of EU Countries in Relation to Sustainable Development," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(3), pages 918-933.
    • Handle: RePEc:ers:journl:v:xxiv:y:2021:i:3:p:918-933
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.ersj.eu/journal/2391/download
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Laure Ledoux & Roeland Mertens & Pascal Wolff, 2005. "EU sustainable development indicators: An overview," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 29(4), pages 392-403, November.
    2. Anna Bluszcz, 2016. "Erratum to: Classification of the European Union member states according to the relative level of sustainable development," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 50(6), pages 2607-2607, November.
    3. Miola, Apollonia & Schiltz, Fritz, 2019. "Measuring sustainable development goals performance: How to monitor policy action in the 2030 Agenda implementation?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 1-1.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Anetta Barska & Janina Jędrzejczak-Gas & Joanna Wyrwa & Krzysztof Kononowicz, 2020. "Multidimensional Assessment of the Social Development of EU Countries in the Context of Implementing the Concept of Sustainable Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-24, September.
    2. Marianela Carrillo, 2022. "Measuring Progress towards Sustainability in the European Union within the 2030 Agenda Framework," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-23, June.
    3. Hametner, Markus & Kostetckaia, Mariia, 2020. "Frontrunners and laggards: How fast are the EU member states progressing towards the sustainable development goals?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
    4. Javier García López & Raffaele Sisto & Javier Benayas & Álvaro de Juanes & Julio Lumbreras & Carlos Mataix, 2021. "Assessment of the Results and Methodology of the Sustainable Development Index for Spanish Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-29, June.
    5. Hametner, Markus, 2022. "Economics without ecology: How the SDGs fail to align socioeconomic development with environmental sustainability," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    6. Halkos, George & Argyropoulou, Georgia, 2022. "Using environmental indicators in performance evaluation of sustainable development health goals," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    7. Marcin K. Widomski & Anna Musz-Pomorska, 2023. "Sustainable Development of Rural Areas in Poland since 2004 in the Light of Sustainability Indicators," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-29, February.
    8. Karolis Andriuškevičius & Dalia Štreimikienė & Irena Alebaitė, 2022. "Convergence between Indicators for Measuring Sustainable Development and M&A Performance in the Energy Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-23, August.
    9. Aleksey I. Shinkevich & Irina G. Ershova & Farida F. Galimulina & Alla A. Yarlychenko, 2021. "Innovative Mesosystems Algorithm for Sustainable Development Priority Areas Identification in Industry Based on Decision Trees Construction," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(23), pages 1-18, November.
    10. Carmen García-Peña & Moneyba González-Medina & Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, 2021. "Assessment of the Governance Dimension in the Frame of the 2030 Agenda: Evidence from 100 Spanish Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-21, May.
    11. Anna Manowska & Andrzej Nowrot, 2019. "The Importance of Heat Emission Caused by Global Energy Production in Terms of Climate Impact," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-12, August.
    12. Benedetti, Ilaria & Crescenzi, Federico, 2023. "The role of income poverty and inequality indicators at regional level: An evaluation for Italy and Germany," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    13. Jyh-Rong Chou, 2021. "A Scoping Review of Ontologies Relevant to Design Strategies in Response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-27, September.
    14. Anna Martyka & Dorota Jopek & Izabela Skrzypczak, 2022. "Analysis of the Sustainable Development Index in the Communes of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship: A Polish Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-23, August.
    15. Mariia Kostetckaia & Markus Hametner, 2022. "How Sustainable Development Goals interlinkages influence European Union countries’ progress towards the 2030 Agenda," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(5), pages 916-926, October.
    16. Syed Mithun Ali & Andrea Appolloni & Fausto Cavallaro & Idiano D’Adamo & Assunta Di Vaio & Francesco Ferella & Massimo Gastaldi & Muhammad Ikram & Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar & Michael Alan Martin & Abdul, 2023. "Development Goals towards Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-11, June.
    17. Alina-Monica Danciu & Roxana-Lavinia Pacurariu & Simina-Elena Lakatos & Matthew Greenley & Alina-Oana Ciomos & Laura Bacali, 2019. "The road towards a social circular economy in Romania," Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, Pro Global Science Association, vol. 18(2), pages 5-18, December.
    18. Giuliano Resce & Fritz Schiltz, 2021. "Sustainable Development in Europe: A Multicriteria Decision Analysis," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 67(2), pages 509-529, June.
    19. Anna Bluszcz & Anna Manowska, 2020. "Differentiation of the Level of Sustainable Development of Energy Markets in the European Union Countries," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-20, September.
    20. Guillaume Lafortune & Grayson Fuller & Guido Schmidt-Traub & Christian Kroll, 2020. "How Is Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals Measured? Comparing Four Approaches for the EU," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-24, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    economic development; sustainable development; indicator analysis;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • F63 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Economic Development
    • B4 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ers:journl:v:xxiv:y:2021:i:3:p:918-933. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Marios Agiomavritis (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ersj.eu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.