Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in China and East Asia Imperatives

Minquan Liu () and Montijn Huisman
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Minquan Liu: Peking University
Montijn Huisman: Peking University

Chapter 3 in Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning, 2022, pp 115-186 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper compares the performances of China and ASEAN in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It does so by analyzing UNSTATS data from 22 different indicators across five policy areas: poverty, infrastructure, natural resource management, sustainable production and consumption, and resilience. The quantitative measurement study is complemented by an analysis of the economic, political, environmental and social factors driving the results of China. Overall, it seems that compared to the ASEAN member states, China is doing particularly well on poverty reduction, infrastructure development, and resilience, which is in line with the fact that these policy areas have long been priority areas of the Chinese government. It has a longer distance to travel in the areas of natural resource management and sustainable consumption and production. Many of the issues discussed here are trans-boundary in nature, and there is ample room for regional cooperation.

Keywords: China; ASEAN; SDG; Measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F55 F64 H50 H70 H84 I30 N15 N55 O10 O20 O40 O53 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-6734-3_3

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