In search of the contours of the post-COVID Sustainable Development Goals: The case of BRICS

Bobylev, Sergey and Grigoryev, Leonid (2020): In search of the contours of the post-COVID Sustainable Development Goals: The case of BRICS. Published in: BRICS Journal of Economics , Vol. 1, No. 2 (August 2020): pp. 4-24.

Abstract

The global COVID-19 pandemic and an unexpected recession of a dangerous magnitude have provided strong reasons to look at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from three points of view: the SDGs as a victim of the recession 2020; the SDGs as an opportunity for better coordination on the way out of recession; and the SDGs as an object of modernization for better adaptation to the realities on “the global ground”. The BRICS countries are, naturally, the primary group of interest for developing and implementing the SDGs on the global scale as a way of catching up. “Pandemic protocol” and additional indicators are proposed as an urgent update to several SDGs.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: BRICS, health care, inequality, low carbon, pandemic, recession, SDG
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F0 - General > F01 - Global Outlook; F - International Economics > F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance > F44 - International Business Cycles; F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization > F63 - Economic Development; F - International Economics > F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization > F64 - Environment; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration

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