and then derives a composite multi-dimensional index and a worldwide ranking of current sustainability. This allows …-dimensional index. The final ranking summarizes countries’ sustainability performance. As expected, Middle-North European countries are … at top of the ranking (Sweden, Norway and Switzerland the first three), with the most industrialized European countries …

policies in three main ways. First, the model results in a ranking of countries which is conditional on the complexity of their … determinants through a latent regression approach. The resulting country ranking can thus be cleaned from the effect of economic …