Fig. 5: Global polarizing and equalizing effects of international trade on SDGs.
From: Polarizing and equalizing trends in international trade and Sustainable Development Goals
There are 12 panels, each showing an environmental or social proxy linked to SDGs. The interpretation of all panels is as follows: polarizing means that international trade improves SDG performance of selected countries (for example, high-income countries) and deteriorates that of other countries (for example, low-income countries). Equalizing describes the opposite trend. The y axis shows the four-quadrant slope bq (Methods), with the mean across countries indicated by a circle, the bq + 1σ region (mean plus one standard deviation across countries) and bq + 2σ region (mean plus two standard deviations across countries) as a box and whisker plot, respectively, and individual region observations as dots. Dashed (2σ) and solid (1σ) horizontal lines are added to show the results of the uncertainty analysis (Supplementary Information 4). Credit: icons from the UN Sustainable Development Goals (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment).
