SMU SOE Seminar (Feb 27, 2020): Spotting Trade-offs and Synergies between Sustainable Development Goals in Lao PDR

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SPOTTING TRADE-OFFS AND SYNERGIES BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN LAO PDR

ABSTRACT Identifying trade-offs and synergies among Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related to Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) is a hard task due to the lack of key information in crucial regions. Lao PDR is one of the countries with the highest rates of malnutrition, however, few is known about the status of undernourishment at higher disaggregated areas like villages or districts. Using the small area estimation technique developed by Fujii (2010) for Cambodia, prevalence of stunting and underweight for children below the age of five were estimated for the year of 2005 and 2015 at district level in Lao PDR. The change over time of malnutrition rates were compared with the change of other socio-economic indicators, as poverty rates, as well as chosen environmental indicators, as percentage of natural/forest cover, built at district level. The contrast among these indicators is the first step to locate local areas where there are trade-offs or synergies among SDG related to FNS. In this study it was possible to identify that in Lao PDR there is a predominance of socio-economic hotspots, where poverty and malnutrition are decreasing, but which at the same time are environmental coldspots, areas with forest and natural cover loss. This could indicate that areas with higher synergies among socio-economic SDG, might also incur on trade-offs with environmental SDG. Click here to view the CV.
		PRESENTER Diana Garcia Rojas Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
		RESEARCH FIELDS Developing Economics Econometrics Environmental Economics
		DATE: 27 February 2020 (Thursday)
		TIME: 4pm - 5.30pm
		VENUE: Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5 School of Economics Singapore Management University 90 Stamford Road Singapore 178903

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