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

In: Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning

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  • Celia Reyes

    (The Philippine Institute for Development Studies)

  • Arkin Arboneda

    (The Philippine Institute for Development Studies)

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.

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  • Celia Reyes & Arkin Arboneda, 2022. "Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets: Can the Philippines Achieve the SDGs?," Springer Books, in: Venkatachalam Anbumozhi & Kaliappa Kalirajan & Fukunari Kimura (ed.), Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning, chapter 8, pages 373-411, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-6734-3_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-6734-3_8
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    Keywords

    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Distance to SDG targets; Philippines;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development

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