Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I A Complexity Approach to Sustainable Development
- Part II A Global View of Sustainable Development
- 6 The Feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goals
- 7 Government Spending and Structural Bottlenecks
- 8 Public Governance and Sustainable Development
- 9 The Impact of International Aid
- Part III A Focalised View of Sustainable Development
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Government Spending and Structural Bottlenecks
from Part II - A Global View of Sustainable Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I A Complexity Approach to Sustainable Development
- Part II A Global View of Sustainable Development
- 6 The Feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goals
- 7 Government Spending and Structural Bottlenecks
- 8 Public Governance and Sustainable Development
- 9 The Impact of International Aid
- Part III A Focalised View of Sustainable Development
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a comprehensive framework to understand and quantify structural bottlenecks in a setting of multidimensional sustainable development. First, we formalise the idea of an idiosyncratic bottleneck when thinking in a hypothetical situation where a government has all the necessary resources to guarantee the success of its existing programmes (i.e., the budgetary frontier). Second, we compare the development gaps between the baseline and counterfactual outputs to assess how sensitive are the different indicators when they operate at the budgetary frontier. Third, we combine this information with the historical performance of indicators to develop a methodology that identifies idiosyncratic bottlenecks. Finally, we elaborate on a flagging system to differentiate between idiosyncratic bottlenecks according to the ‘urgency’ to unblock them.
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- Complexity Economics and Sustainable DevelopmentA Computational Framework for Policy Priority Inference, pp. 188 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024