Two cheers (The Hindu, Economy, GS-3)

05 Jun Two cheers (The Hindu, Economy, GS-3)

Context:- Recently NITI Ayog has published the report of SDG index. This index reveals how states are performing to achieve SDG goals according to UN. 

• Kerala has topped in the SDG.
• Clean water, sanitation and in energy every state performant better.
• major decline in the areas of industry, innovation and infrastructure 
• The SDG on inequality shows an improvement over 2019

Issue:-

• SDGs on eradication of poverty and hunger, measures 
  • related to the availability of affordable, clean energy in particular, showed improvements across several States and Union Territories, but changed methodology became a issue
• persisting socioeconomic and governance disparities
• The 2020­21 Index drops several economic indicators and gives greater weightage to social equality indicators
• dropping the well­recognised Gini coefficient measure
• the SDG score on inequality seems to have missed out on capturing the impact of the pandemic on wealth inequality
• lack of adequate measurement of economic inequality seems to be a glaring miss.
  

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Swarn Singh

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member