The Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Development in Europe: A Temporal Analysis

Marianna Bartiromo () and Enrico Ivaldi ()
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Marianna Bartiromo: SDA Bocconi School of Management
Enrico Ivaldi: University of Genoa

Chapter Chapter 2 in COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality, 2023, pp 25-42 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The current COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest challenges we face today. In addition to causing countless casualties around the world, it has posed an enormous obstacle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda. One of the continents that have been most affected by this economic and social crisis is undoubtedly Europe. For this reason, many European countries have responded to the crisis with numerous governmental measures (e.g., the Next Generation EU) in which great attention has been paid to the SDGs and sustainability. The objective of this work is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the levels of sustainable development achieved by some countries of the European continent. To do so, three years (2015, 2018 and 2020) are analyzed through the construction of three different sustainable development indices (SDI). To construct the indices, 17 indicators are used, taken from the free Eurostat database. The technique used is the stacking deprivation method (Landi et al. in Soc Indic Res 139:745–785, 2017 [30]; Norman in Appl Spat Anal Policy 3:107–138, 2010 [34]) which, in addition to, allowing an absolute temporal comparison, also allows a high replicability. The results show a general improvement in the levels of sustainable development between the years 2015 and 2018 and a worsening between 2018 and 2020. This worsening therefore demonstrates the negative effects of the pandemic also in terms of sustainability and the need for intervention by European countries.

Keywords: COVID-19; Sustainable development; EU; Stacking deprivation; SDGs; UN (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4405-7_2

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