Convergência de políticas para implementação dos objetivos de desenvolvimento sustentável: uma análise dos arranjos organizacionais domésticos

Abstract

This research questions whether countries that receive larger amounts of Official Development Assistance (ODA) have a higher odds ratio of convergence to the guidelines advocated by the United Nations (UN) to implement, monitor and review the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their organizational arrangements. As a general objective, it seeks to verify whether there is a higher odds ratio of finding the guidelines disseminated by the UN in the organizational arrangements adopted by countries that receive larger flows of ODA than in countries that receive smaller flows or that do not receive ODA. For this, data were extracted from the organizational adaptation processes of 113 countries through the Voluntary National Reviews (VNR). To operationalize the concept of policy convergence, a convergence variable to the UN guidelines was created based on data collected from three variables on the participation of actors in the organizational arrangements of the countries: participation of non-governmental actors, participation of high-level members of government and participation of subnational governments. The binary logistic regression technique was adopted, in which the ODA flows received by the countries and the levels of convergence to the UN guidelines in the organizational arrangements were related. As a working hypothesis, we have that countries that receive larger amounts of ODA are more likely to converge to the guidelines advocated by the UN in their organizational arrangements. Among the results found, the working hypothesis was confirmed (not rejected), since the results of the binary logistic regression indicated that countries that receive higher amounts of ODA between 2016 and 2019 had a higher odds ratio of converging at the medium-high to UN guidelines when compared to countries that received relatively smaller amounts of ODA or that did not receive foreign aid. The conclusion points to the importance of observing how relatively more vulnerable and more dependent countries may be more susceptible to the adoption of certain policies.