The Transition to Sustainable Development.
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Kweku McDonald
College:
College of Business and Public Management
Major:
Public Administration
Faculty Research Advisor(s):
Dongyan Mu
Abstract:
The goal of this project is to simply and descriptively trace the evolution of paradigms to measure human well-being. Economic growth was initially the paradigm that indicated how a nation's inhabitants enjoyed life. Measured through per capita income, this measure was soon recognized as inequitable, as a few in most countries enjoyed the bulk of the income, and the majority much less. It has never been wider (Income Inequality by Country 2024, n.d.).
Some measure of improvements in welfare such as better health care, education and more housing for large parts of the poor population, was reckoned as necessary to account for the measurement of well-being of a nation's population (Dang & Sui Pheng, 2015).
Account had to be taken for environmental considerations, the standard of living, inequalities between, classes, regions and genders and general poverty.
Sustainable development is the concept now coined to strive for equitable development within and among nations. This is the new economic view of development.
Currently these social, environmental and economic areas of concern is detailed in 17 goals for sustainable development by the United Nations.
This study, thus, is to relate this transition from economic growth to sustainable development as it has evolved over the years.