Castro Conceição, Lopes Cristina
Department of Economics, Porto Accounting and Business School, CEOS.PP, ISCAP, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, CEPESE, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, 4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal.
Department of Mathematics, Porto Accounting and Business School, CEOS.PP, ISCAP, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, 4465-004 S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal.
J Knowl Econ. 2022;13(2):880-903. doi: 10.1007/s13132-021-00749-2. Epub 2021 Feb 20.
Sustainable development is a concern and a challenge of modern societies, either in developing and developed countries. Good governance is crucial to managing efficiently all kind of resources, including natural resources, for the well-being of current and future generations. Digital transformation can be a key driver of changes in governments if they want to enhance transparency, accountability and efficiency. E-government facilitates integrated policies and public services to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth, social development and environmental protection. E-government contributes to efficient resource management, and so can help to improve namely natural resource usage in the present to avoid damage to their usage in the future. The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of e-government on sustainable development. Using a logit model, for a sample of 103 countries in the period 2003-2018, the results suggest that e-government development is a positive determinant for a country to attain sustainable development, proxied by adjusted net savings, that embraces a country's economic, social and environmental development. This study provides evidence that e-government increases the probability to attain sustainable development mostly in developing and transition economies. The results also suggest that economic growth and gross national income per capita are significant positive influences in sustainable development in the whole sample and that countries with lower age dependency and natural resource rents are more likely to have sustainable development. Developing e-government allows promoting sustainable development, particularly in developing and in transition economies.
可持续发展是现代社会所关注的问题和面临的挑战，无论是在发展中国家还是发达国家。良好治理对于有效管理各类资源（包括自然资源）以保障当代人和后代人的福祉至关重要。如果政府想要提高透明度、问责制和效率，数字转型可以成为政府变革的关键驱动力。电子政务有助于制定综合政策和提供公共服务，以促进可持续和包容性的经济增长、社会发展及环境保护。电子政务有助于高效的资源管理，从而有助于改善当前自然资源的使用情况，避免损害其未来的使用。本研究的目的是分析电子政务对可持续发展的影响。使用逻辑模型，对2003年至2018年期间103个国家的样本进行分析，结果表明，电子政务发展是一个国家实现可持续发展的积极决定因素，可持续发展以经调整的净储蓄来衡量，涵盖了一个国家的经济、社会和环境发展。本研究提供的证据表明，电子政务主要在发展中经济体和转型经济体中增加了实现可持续发展的可能性。结果还表明，经济增长和人均国民总收入对整个样本的可持续发展具有显著的积极影响，而年龄抚养比和自然资源租金较低的国家更有可能实现可持续发展。发展电子政务有助于促进可持续发展，特别是在发展中经济体和转型经济体中。
