"Agenda 2030: una sfida per il paese, una sfida per la PA" Gli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile (SDGs) segnano una profonda discontinuità nella politica mondiale che richiede un nuovo slancio all’amministrazione pubblica

1. The Sustainable Development Goals
and Public Administration in Italy
Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs
Public Administration Forum
Rome Convention Center
May 24, 2017

2. THE WORLD HAS ENTERED THE
AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
AT THE UNITED NATIONS ON SEPTEMBER 25 2015
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
THAT IS
SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE AND
ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE

3. “SMART, FAIR, AND SUSTAINABLE”

4. Source: Rockström et al 2009a)
“PLANETARY BOUNDARIES”

5. WORLD GINI COEFFICIENT, 2008

6. SDG 10: PRE-TAX AND POST-TAX INEQUALITY

8. SDG Challenges Facing the High-Income World
SDG 1: Relative Poverty: Youth, Elderly, Poorly Educated
SDG 2: Obesity epidemic
SDG 3: Soaring Healthcare Costs
SDG 4: Lack of Appropriate Education for 21st Century
SDG 5: Too Few Women in Politics
SDG 6: Unsafe Urban Water, Depleted Aquifers
SDG 7: Insufficient Renewable Energy
SDG 8: High Youth Unemployment
SDG 9: Low R&D
SDG 10: High Inequality
SDG 11: Unsustainable Cities
SDG 12: Poor Waste Management
SDG 13: High-Carbon Economy
SDG 14: Depleted Marine Areas
SDG 15: Land Degradation, Desertification, Loss of Biodiversity
SDG 16: Corruption, Violence
SDG 17: Global Externalities, Under-provision of Global Public Goods

9. HOW DOES THE ITALY STACK UP ON THE SDGS?

11. ITALY
RANKS
48/155
IN
HAPPINESS

12. TWO PRIMARY FACTORS FOR ITALY:

13. INSUFFICIENT INVESTMENT IN TERTIARY
EDUCATION AND R&D
LEADS TO UNCOMPETITIVE ECONOMY,
RELATIVELY HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT,
RELATIVE POVERTY, LOW EMPLOYMENT
RATIO

14. SHARE OF ADULT POPULATION WITH TERTIARY EDUCATION

15. Gross Domestic Spending on R&D as % of GDP

16. 0
5
10
15
20
25
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
Germany
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Netherlan…
Austria
France
Belgium
Luxembo…
UK
Ireland
Italy
Slovenia
Estonia
Spain
Hungary
Czech
Latvia
Poland
Greece
Portugal
Slovakia
Croatia
Bulgaria
Lithuania
Romania
Patents Per Million
Unemployment Rate
SDGS 8 & 9: INNOVATION AND JOB CREATION

17. CORRUPTION AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY:
WEAK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
LACK OF SOCIAL TRUST
LOSS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
INSUFFICIENT PUBLIC INVESTMENT

18. ITALY RANKS
60/176
ON CORRUPTION
PERCEPTIONS

19. FIVE STEPS TO ACHIEVING THE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

20. GOAL SETTING AND PLANNING FOR 2030 AND 2050
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
AND GOOD GOVERNANCE (ICTS FOR PA)
INVESTMENT IN KNOWLEDGE: UNIVERSITIES, PUBLIC
RESEARCH INSTITUTES, START-UPS, PRIVATE SECTOR
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC ETHOS: UNIVERSAL ACCESS
REGIONAL AND GLOBAL COOPERATION (MED REGION, OBOR AS
EXAMPLES

22. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to
achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of
landing a man on the moon and returning him
safely to the Earth. No single space project in this
period will be more impressive to mankind, or
more important for the long-range exploration of
space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to
accomplish.” JFK, May 25, 1961

23. WHAT ARE ITALY’S GOALS FOR 2030?