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Ma, Y., Loh, L., & Yin, Z.-J. (2025). Integrating economics, environment, social, and governance (EESG): A more comprehensive sustainable framework. Innovation and Green Development, 4(1), 100199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.igd.2024.100199 .

Link：https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949753124000766

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Time span: 2000-2022

Number of countries: 121 countries around the world

Introduction: To establish a comprehensive sustainable development framework that balances economic development and ESG levels, we proposes an EESG (Economics, Environment, Social, and Governance) evaluation system. This index uses the entropy-weighted TOPSIS method to calculate and compare the EESG scores of 121 countries from 2000 to 2022.