The Paradoxes of the SGDs from the Sustainable Development Report

Abstract

In the last years, the entire world faced many challenges that led to the awareness by governments of the need to consider the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depending on the particularities of each country and global challenges. Therefore, our research has as its main objective the analysis of the values of the SDG Index in correlation with the particularities of the different countries subject to the research, but also according to other indices related to the SDGs. Our results proved that the Dispersal of Information is a source of the need for more interest of decision-makers at national and international levels in carrying out concrete improvement actions of SGDs, especially in many low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). Therefore, the paper's originality demonstrates that the data used to calculate the SDG Index are subject to the Dispersal of Information and generate divergent decisions with negative consequences on implementing SDGs in different countries and regions. The theoretical implications of our research consist of the critical analysis of the complexity of the SDGs and how the Dispersal of Information acts on the relevance and effectiveness of some indicators of the SDGs. Finally, the practical implications are translated into recommendations for the decision-makers implementing the SDGs at the national level.