Interplays of Institutional, Economic, Social and Environmental Systems in Sustainable Development in Latin America

Interplays of Institutional, Economic, Social and Environmental Systems in Sustainable Development in Latin America

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DOI 10.20900/jsr20250007
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JSR
年,卷(期) 2025, 7(1)
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Department of Economics, National University of Chimborazo, Chimborazo 060110, Ecuador ;

Abstract
This research seeks to identify the direct effects and interactions of the economic, social, environmental and institutional dimensions or systems on sustainable development for 16 Latin American countries between 2007 and 2019. The sustainable development index (SDI) proposed by Hickel (2020) is used as the dependent variable, as are the pillars of Legatum’s prosperity index, grouped into the indicated dimensions (explanatory variables). A dynamic panel data model is estimated using the generalised method of moments. The results indicate that business conditions, economic quality, health and education have positive and significant direct effects on the SDI. It is corroborated that the interactions between institutional and economic, as well as institutional and social, and economic and social dimensions have a positive effect on the SDI, although only the first interaction is statistically significant. As for the other interactions, the results show negative signs and only the interactions between the environmental dimension and the economic dimension and social dimension, respectively, are statistically significant. For Latin America, improvements in the SDI are associated with the economic and social dimensions (weak sustainability). This is reinforced by the strengthening of the institutional framework but with higher levels of CO2 emissions and material footprint, whose indirect effects along with the rest of the dimensions condition the possibility of achieving better results in terms of sustainability.
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sustainable development; institutionalism; economic dimension; social dimension; environmental dimension; dynamic panel data; generalised method of moments
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Patricia Hernández-Medina*. Interplays of Institutional, Economic, Social and Environmental Systems in Sustainable Development in Latin America, Journal of Sustainability Research. 2025; 7; (1). https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20250007.

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