Towards a Research-Driven and Effective Policy-Backed Agenda to Deliver SDG 2030

A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 733

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Department of Economics, Governors State University, University Park, IL, USA
Interests: nutrition and food security; health economics; development economics

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Dear Colleagues,

The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals agenda aims to deliver global economic, social, and human development for 2030.  

This agenda has been recently hindered by climate change, urbanization, wars and military tensions, disruptions to food production and supply chains, increased pressures on governments’ budgets, and the COVID pandemic. 

In the face of these challenges, extensive research is needed to support evidence-driven and cost-effective policies and interventions to support this agenda.  

Within this framework, this Special Issue invites researchers to contribute to the empirical literature on SDGs, with a particular focus on SDG2 “Zero Hunger”, SDG6 “Clean water and sanitation”, and SDG1 “No Poverty”, though research on other SDGs is welcome. Researchers should contextualize their findings towards effective and actionable interventions which will support the policy agenda.   

Empirical research examining and/or challenging the current state of the literature and current policy narratives is welcome, as are replication studies of highly cited studies. Authors should rely on state-of-the-art econometric techniques and provide a replication package when submitting their papers.  

Dr. Sébastien Mary
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Keywords

  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
  • agriculture
  • nutrition
  • water
  • poverty

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Revisiting the Impact of Dams on Malaria and Agriculture
by Sebastien Mary, Kyle Craven, Avraham Stoler and Sarah Shafiq
Economies 2023, 11(7), 173; https://doi.org/10.3390/economies11070173 - 25 Jun 2023
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We estimate the effect of large dams on malaria incidence in India between 1975 and 1995. We combine instrumental variables approach with a panel model with unobserved common factors allowing us to fully capture the endogeneity of dam location and unobserved time-varying heterogeneity. [...] Read more.
We estimate the effect of large dams on malaria incidence in India between 1975 and 1995. We combine instrumental variables approach with a panel model with unobserved common factors allowing us to fully capture the endogeneity of dam location and unobserved time-varying heterogeneity. Dams result in increased malaria incidence in districts where dams are located and in downstream areas. We find that the construction of a large dam increases a district’s annual malaria incidence by about 0.9 to 1.4 percent, and by about 1 to 1.5 percent in downstream districts. We also find that this malaria-increasing effect of dams persists over time. Our results imply that the construction of dams in malaria-sensitive areas should be coupled with direct interventions, such as the wide deployment of insecticide-treated nets or the roll-out of future vaccines. Furthermore, we examine the contribution of agricultural development to this malaria-increasing effect of dams. We find that dam construction benefits agriculture in the vicinity of dams, as well as in downstream areas. These positive effects are driven by increased irrigation and cultivation in the vicinity of dams, while they are driven by changes in cropping patterns in downstream areas, where the cultivation of high-yielding variety crops increases. Finally, a back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the agricultural production gains from dam construction dominate the economic losses resulting from increased malaria. Full article
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