Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets: Can the Philippines Achieve the SDGs?

Celia Reyes () and Arkin Arboneda
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Celia Reyes: The Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Arkin Arboneda: The Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Chapter 8 in Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning, 2022, pp 373-411 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to assess where the Philippines currently stand in terms of achieving the SDG targets. The distance-to-target approach developed by the OECD (2019), which uses the standardized difference between a fixed target endpoint and the current achievement of a country per indicator, is used to benchmark the current performance of the Philippines against other relevant comparator countries with respect to attaining the targets across the different SDG indicators. Using this methodology, it was found that the Philippines is gaining progress and has a relatively high potential in achieving the targets on extreme poverty, maternal and early childhood mortality rates, access to education, universal electrification, marine conservation, and forest rehabilitation. Meanwhile, greater acceleration is needed in terms of improving access to social assistance and insurance programs, addressing malnutrition and food insecurity, and improving the quality of learning. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, however, has reversed some of the gains. Global cooperation is needed to address the adverse impacts and put the economies back on track.

Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Distance to SDG targets; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 I15 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-6734-3_8

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