Cherry-picking the Sustainable Development Goals: Goal prioritization by national governments and implications for global governance
Cherry-picking the Sustainable Development Goals: Goal prioritization by national governments and implications for global governance
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DOI：
10.1002/sd.2082
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发表时间：
2020-06-08
影响因子：
12.5
通讯作者：
Kim, Rakhyun E.
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作者：
Forestier, Oana;Kim, Rakhyun E.
联合国成员国一致同意将可持续发展目标（SDG）视为同等重要的全球目标。然而，这些国家似乎在国家实施中优先考虑某些可持续发展目标。这种挑选违背了可持续发展目标“整体和不可分割”的性质，并可能对全球可持续发展的整体进展产生负面影响。哪些可持续发展目标在国家政策中比其他目标更受关注？我们可以对全球治理产生什么影响？我们分两部分解决这些问题。通过对 19 个不同收入水平国家的自愿国家审查的内容分析，我们发现关于消除贫困和经济增长的可持续发展目标 1 和 8 是迄今为止最广泛优先考虑的。然后，我们专门研究不丹和越南，探讨目标优先顺序的可能解释以及国际组织对其国家政策的潜在指导作用。研究结果对全球治理具有重要的政策意义。我们认为，可持续发展高级别政治论坛尤其可以发挥重要作用，更好地协调国际组织，帮助减少不健康的目标优先顺序。
The member states of the United Nations collectively agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as equally important global objectives. Yet the same states seem to prioritize certain SDGs in national implementation. Such cherry-picking defies the "integrated and indivisible" nature of the SDGs, and could negatively impact overall progress on sustainable development globally. Which SDGs receive more attention than the others in national policies, and what implications can we draw for global governance? We address these questions in two parts. Through a content analysis of the Voluntary National Reviews of 19 countries of varying income levels, we find that SDGs 1 and 8 on poverty eradication and economic growth are by far most widely prioritized. We then look specifically into Bhutan and Vietnam to explore possible explanations for goal prioritization as well as the potential steering effects of international organizations on their national policies. The findings have important policy implications for global governance. We argue that the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in particular, has an important role to play to better coordinate international organizations to help mitigate unhealthy goal prioritization.