Abstract

LOMBANA-COY, Jahir  and  CABEZA, Leonor. AN APPROACH TO THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR THE AMERICAS. Innovar [online]. 2024, vol.34, n.91, e100460.  Epub Jan 01, 2024. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v34n91.100460.

Reaching the 2030 targets of the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) depends on how public and private actors formulate policies and implement compliance actions, i.e., on having good governance. This research seeks to identify the governance indicators (independent variable) with the greatest influence on each sdg (dependent variable). Through a series of models generated using logistic regressions, this work calculates the probability for countries in the Americas of having one sdg above or below the median. Thus, the strong correlation between different variables is confirmed. Among the main findings, corruption control is identified as the governance indicator that best explains models predicting the evolution of the sdgs (above the median), followed by political stability and the absence of violence/terrorism. The use of quantitative variables to identify interrelationships between governance and sdgs, as well as doing so on a regional scale for the Americas, is a novel proposal delivered by this work. Results emphasize the need for strong institutional structures with good governance in order to improve the majority of the sdgs. Statistical limitations excluded some sdgs (5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17) and require further analysis, establishing an area of opportunity where further studies addressing specific country-level information could be initiated, since currently available studies on the subject are mainly descriptive or casuistical.

Keywords : America; governance; institutionalism; sustainable development goals; logistic regression.

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