South Asian countries’ progress on Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), first adopted in 2015, signalled a huge global effort towards building a fairer world. Globally, East and South Asia region made the greatest progress towards the goals after their adoption. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this populous area has struggled with advancing the SDG agenda but remained surprisingly stable. Abdur Rehman Cheema disaggregates the data from the latest SDG Index scores for the countries in South Asia to assess the impact of the pandemic and the way forward.