Smart Development

Chybné měření rozvoje

Oct 18, 2017 Bjørn Lomborg

BERMUDA – Nový systém kontroly, který si klade za cíl hodnotit země podle rozvojového pokroku, nám říká jen málo o tom, jak se nám daří v největších výzvách lidstva. Namísto toho to zdůrazňuje nedostatky nekoncentrované rozvojové agendy dneška.

Hlavní nová zpráva, zpracovaná Jeffrey D. Sachsem a vydaná Udržitelnou sítí rozvojových řešení OSN a německým Bertelsmann Stiftung, poskytuje barevné ukazatele, které demonstrují, jak si každá země vede v otázce implementace Udržitelných rozvojových cílů (SDGs) – obrovsky důležité agendy, která nahradila velice efektivní Rozvojové cíle tisíciletí (MDGs) před 18 měsíci. Zelená ukazuje úspěch napříč všemi indikátory cíle; žlutá, oranžová a červená ukazují narůstající odstup od dosažení cíle.

Mohly by se od hodnocení očekávat, že odhalí, jak dobře alokují bohaté země svou rozvojovou pomoc, a jak úspěšně chudší země utrácejí své vlastní finance, aby zajistily, že bude mít více lidí přístup ke vzdělání, zdravotní péči, potravinám a bezpečnějšímu, čistšímu životnímu prostředí – zásadní výzvy této planety.

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Bjørn Lomborg

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Bjørn Lomborg, a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School, is Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. His books include The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cool It, How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, The Nobel Laureates' Guide to the Smartest Targets for the World, and, most recently, Prioritizing Development. In 2004, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people for his research on the smartest ways to help the world.

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Henk Crop Nov 3, 2017

Good article. To have 169 targets is pointless, that is not setting priorities.
Ten would be practical.

What I miss in these targets and also in those of the Nobel Prize Winners is the most important target. That is that the fertility rate, on average, should not exceed 2,1 child per woman. That is the fertility rate which is needed to sustain a population.
The huge population growth in Africa, the Middle East and Asia is unimaginable.
Just in Africa, the current population of 1200 million will double in the next 35 years.
Its effect is devastating. It will cause foodshortage, watershortage, warfare, migration and leaves many millions of young people without much of a future.
By meeting this target many of these 169 targets can mostly be met also.
The fertility target should be at the top of the list.
Goverments and Religous Leaders should take a more active role on this issue and improve the life of millions.
Perhaps the Pope could have his organisation provide support on family planning ?
Perhaps could the Religous leaders in Riadh and Teheran finance similar family support ?
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Shazwan Kharip Nov 3, 2017

Excellent criticism. however, perhaps the author would want to review the diff between MDG and SDG. the former focus on the developing world whilethe latter has broaden its perspective to include both developing and developed nations. i see the color code not as a linearly-ranked achievement. rather each of those reflected some problems in which intensity surmount to the color it deserved.
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Jonathan Said Oct 19, 2017

Excellent article. We need more of this! The problem we see in Africa is the imposition of all sorts of SDGs on low capacity governments, effectively undermining their own prioritisation process and their own learning process. It's the worst form of development you can have, at least in an African context.
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