Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exe...

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Main Authors:	Vorisek, Dana, Yu, Shu
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE EQUITABLE GROWTH ACCESS TO ENERGY FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/744701582827333101/Understanding-the-Cost-of-Achieving-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33407

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spelling	okr-10986-334072022-09-20T00:11:44Z Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Vorisek, Dana Yu, Shu ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE EQUITABLE GROWTH ACCESS TO ENERGY FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of reasons: double counting, sensitivity to underlying assumptions, downplaying the critical role of policy and institutions in advancing toward the goals, failure to discount costs or consider operation and maintenance costs in a consistent manner, and overlooking the tendency for different types of Sustainable Development Goal–related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. 2020-03-04T14:20:48Z 2020-03-04T14:20:48Z 2020-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/744701582827333101/Understanding-the-Cost-of-Achieving-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33407 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9164 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE EQUITABLE GROWTH ACCESS TO ENERGY FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN
spellingShingle	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE EQUITABLE GROWTH ACCESS TO ENERGY FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN Vorisek, Dana Yu, Shu Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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description	This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of reasons: double counting, sensitivity to underlying assumptions, downplaying the critical role of policy and institutions in advancing toward the goals, failure to discount costs or consider operation and maintenance costs in a consistent manner, and overlooking the tendency for different types of Sustainable Development Goal–related spending to have distinct effects. Recent costing studies by the World Bank Group have been developed to minimize the drawbacks of earlier studies. The paper also briefly reviews how the World Bank Group engages with stakeholders on the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
format	Working Paper
author	Vorisek, Dana Yu, Shu
author_facet	Vorisek, Dana Yu, Shu
author_sort	Vorisek, Dana
title	Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
title_short	Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
title_full	Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
title_fullStr	Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
title_full_unstemmed	Understanding the Cost of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
title_sort	understanding the cost of achieving the sustainable development goals
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/744701582827333101/Understanding-the-Cost-of-Achieving-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33407
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