Reducing Inequalities within Countries
Assessing the Potential of the Sustainable Development Goals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19035285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucas Chancel (0000-0002-8803-3186, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales), Alex Hough (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales), Tancrède Voituriez (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-16 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-5880 • E-ISSN: 1758-5899 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1758-5899.12511 |
| OpenAlex | W2767825026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 30 |
Income and wealth inequality are rising in most countries around the world today. Recognising that this challenge has become a universal issue, the United Nations agreed in 2015 to seventeen Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG s), as part of a global agenda to transform society. Specifically, SDG Target 10 commits countries to ‘reduce inequalities within and among countries’. To what extent SDG s and in particular SDG target 10 can help nations reverse inequality towards a downward trend is the question we address in this paper. To answer this question, we build on the theory of change underpinning the goal‐based governance characterising the SDG s, then we infer the added value of the SDG s along three criteria: the production of a common metric, the capacity to emulate peer pressure, and policy learning within and across countries. Across these three criteria, our main finding is that there is much that states can take away from the SDG s to address the problem of rising inequality, though success is conditional on achieving the buy‐in of key actors and epistemic communities for which domestic inequalities remains a domestic issue and not a global sustainability one
Corporate governance · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Management · Metric (unit) · Operations management · Political science · Public economics · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Underpinning · Engineering · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · International Development and Aid · Law · Mathematics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |