Aiming to achieve sustainable development, a constantly growing number of countries have strived to promote economic growth while simultaneously mitigating environmental degradation and maximizing social welfare. However, despite the importance attributed to social well-being in contemporary discourse, its role has not received much attention in the performance evaluation literature. We propose a novel, multi-stage framework based on three dimensions of performance allowing us to assess the tradeoffs between the economic, environmental, and social efficiency in 28 OECD member countries from 2000 to 2019. We construct several scenarios representing policymakers' preferences by altering the weights assigned to the different performance pillars, allowing us to assess the environmental and social repercussions of economic growth. Our findings suggest that policies promoting relatively balanced growth patterns can offer opportunities for higher performance across all three pillars. At the same time, prioritizing development along any single dimension can trigger a relatively significant drop in progress in terms of the other two pillars. We also demonstrate that the sustainable development potential has varied across time and space. Comparisons suggest that the European OECD member countries have outperformed their non-European counterparts in terms of the economic performance, health outcomes, life expectancy, and carbon dioxide (CO) emissions. Our results can provide policymakers with insights into strategies for promoting economic growth that account for sustainable development objectives.

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使用多阶段生产框架的绩效评估：评估经济、环境和社会福祉之间的权衡


为实现可持续发展，越来越多的国家努力促进经济增长，同时减缓环境退化和社会福利最大化。然而，尽管社会福祉在当代话语中具有重要意义，但其作用在绩效评估文献中并未受到太多关注。我们提出了一个基于三个绩效维度的新颖的多阶段框架，使我们能够评估 28 个 OECD 成员国 2000 年至 2019 年经济、环境和社会效率之间的权衡。我们通过改变分配给不同绩效支柱的权重使我们能够评估经济增长对环境和社会的影响。我们的研究结果表明，促进相对平衡增长模式的政策可以为所有三个支柱提供更高绩效的机会。与此同时，优先考虑任何单一维度的发展可能会导致其他两个支柱的进展相对显着下降。我们还证明，可持续发展潜力随着时间和空间的不同而变化。比较表明，欧洲经合组织成员国在经济表现、健康状况、预期寿命和二氧化碳 (CO) 排放方面优于非欧洲国家。我们的研究结果可以为政策制定者提供有关促进经济增长、实现可持续发展目标的战略的见解。