Research on the Impact of Financial Development and Human Capital on the Sustainable Development Goals in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs): Evidence from Econometric Approaches

Yağcılar, Gamze Göçmen; Erdaş, Mehmet Levent; Arslan, Zühal

Research on the Impact of Financial Development and Human Capital on the Sustainable Development Goals in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs): Evidence from Econometric Approaches

Review of Economic Perspectives

Volume 25 (2025): Issue 1 (March 2025)

By:

Gamze Göçmen Yağcılar

, Mehmet Levent Erdaş

and Zühal Arslan

Open Access

|Sep 2025

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Keywords:

financial globalization,

Human Development Index,

ESG performance,

symmetry and asymmetry relation,

Central and Eastern European countries

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Business and economics,

Political economics,

Economic theory, systems and structures

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