The Impact of Post-2015 Development Agenda on Emerging Economies
Original, , 01-28-2016
Whether the 1992 environment-sustainable goals, or the 2000 MDGs, or 2015 SDGs, undoubtedly became or will become reference or even guidelines for the formulation of domestic development policies, influencing the modes of international development cooperation at the same time. Because of the big differences of development levels, development demands, national conditions and so on in different countries, the impacts of post-2015 development agenda on the domestic and foreign policies will vary in different countries.
Among all the country groups, emerging economies are most affected by post-2015 agenda and exposed to the greatest pressure. They achieved outstanding success of economic growth and accomplished the goal of poverty reduction early, which increased their influence on the global stage. Therefore, the international community expects them to bear more responsibilities, and even treats them as the equivalent actors to developed countries. However, developed countries have already realized industrialization and have solid economic foundation. But the economies of emerging countries are still in transition and face a variety of development challenges, especially to deal with the conflicts between industrialization and environmental protection. Before 2015, emerging economies achieved economic growth partly at the expense of environmental sustainability, but environmental sustainability and economic growth must be put in the same position in the post-2015 development plans. This means that in order to achieve SDGs, emerging economies need to pursue industrialization and "greenization" simultaneously.
Original, , 01-28-2016
Whether the 1992 environment-sustainable goals, or the 2000 MDGs, or 2015 SDGs, undoubtedly became or will become reference or even guidelines for the formulation of domestic development policies, influencing the modes of international development cooperation at the same time. Because of the big differences of development levels, development demands, national conditions and so on in different countries, the impacts of post-2015 development agenda on the domestic and foreign policies will vary in different countries.
Among all the country groups, emerging economies are most affected by post-2015 agenda and exposed to the greatest pressure. They achieved outstanding success of economic growth and accomplished the goal of poverty reduction early, which increased their influence on the global stage. Therefore, the international community expects them to bear more responsibilities, and even treats them as the equivalent actors to developed countries. However, developed countries have already realized industrialization and have solid economic foundation. But the economies of emerging countries are still in transition and face a variety of development challenges, especially to deal with the conflicts between industrialization and environmental protection. Before 2015, emerging economies achieved economic growth partly at the expense of environmental sustainability, but environmental sustainability and economic growth must be put in the same position in the post-2015 development plans. This means that in order to achieve SDGs, emerging economies need to pursue industrialization and "greenization" simultaneously.
