Enhancing the SDGs

This chapter explores how we can enhance and better employ our welfare analysis of the 17 SDGs to account for any environmental impacts, institutional effectiveness, and inclusivity of progress towards sustainability. We apply this analysis to the world, low-income countries, and our nine representative countries. Our results suggest that progress towards sustainability is correlated with reducing the environmental costs of current development, making it more compatible with improving institutional quality, and ensuring that any progress is more inclusive.