Mapping the Focus of Sustainable Development Goals in Resolving COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: An Overview of Asia
Astrie Krisnawati

Faculty of Economics and Business, Telkom University
Jl. Telekomunikasi No. 1, Terusan Buah Batu, Bandung 40257, Indonesia
*astriekrisnawati[at]telkomuniversity.ac.id

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been determined by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to be achieved by 2030. All countries have been taking big efforts and speedy works to reach that target since 2015. Unpredictably, in the end 2019, an outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic hit all over the world. This catastrophe leads to disruptions to the global economy which can also hinder the achievement of SDGs. It forces some changes in the strategy to achieve SDGs in some countries, as well as in Asian countries. Therefore, we need to select the most urgent issues to be addressed among the seventeen items of SDGs in accordance with the attempts to overcome the impacts of COVID-19. By applying a systematic literature review and middle-range theory of several previous studies from journal articles in Science Direct database, this qualitative study aims to do the mapping of the focus of Asian countries in resolving COVID-19 pandemic through their efforts in achieving SDGs. The results of this research will give recommendations to the governments of Asian countries to take focus of their current development programs on the most urgent issues out of the seventeen goals in SDGs.

Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals- COVID-19- Pandemic- Asia

Topic: Business, Economic and Management