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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has become increasingly critical due to global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions affecting supply chains, and challenges surrounding food, water, and energy. Tracking national sustainability trends provides essential data to guide resource allocation and policy strategy. This research establishes a composite index to evaluate Morocco's progress across 13 of the 17 development goals, examining 46 indicators across economic, social, and environmental areas between 2001 and 2018. Indicators were chosen using the framework adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and aggregated using normalisation techniques. The analysis reveals that the economic dimension performed worst among the examined areas. While Morocco shows positive movement towards social and environmental targets, greater measures are necessary to keep pace with population growth and demands for better living standards.
Evaluating national sustainability metrics provides governments and planners with clear evidence of systemic gaps and strengths. By quantifying progress across specific social, environmental, and economic areas, decision makers can better determine where to target national investments and adjust strategic policies to manage crises such as resource shortages and demographic shifts.
The primary application of this work is an analytical framework that policy makers, researchers, and development organisations can use to evaluate national progress towards development goals. While the methodology is applied and tested using historical data from Morocco, it serves as a decision-support and benchmarking tool rather than a commercial product. The abstract does not indicate any direct private-sector application or market pathway.
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The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for any nation has become more of an urgent priority in the global agenda than at any time before, especially under the light of recent disrupting events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the alarming food–water–energy trilemma, and the geopolitical upheavals impacting the supply chain of vital commodities. Assessing the sustainable progress of a country over time can help policy makers establish and develop robust strategies by identifying their strengths and weaknesses, allocating adequate resources, and understanding how far the country is from achieving the SDGs. No prior research has evaluated the SDGs performance composite index in Morocco. Hence, this study evaluates the national level of SDG progress by analyzing 13 out of 17 SDGs, including 46 available economic, social, and environmental indicators from 2001 to 2018, to provide factual data that can be used as a decision-making basis. The selection of indicators is established based on the framework adopted by the UN General Assembly. A composite index was created and quantified using the min–max normalization technique, the geometric product aggregation, and the overall scores of Morocco’s SDG performance and the different dimensions were calculated. The results show that economic performance was the worst among the other dimensions. Morocco is progressing to achieve the environmental and social targets, but more effort is required to absorb the needs linked with population growth and improvement of living standards. The developed framework could be of great interest for scientists and researchers to assess the national SDG progress of other countries.
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DOI: 10.3390/su142315582
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