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Measuring China’s HarmonyCANBERRA – Scientific circles have generally accepted the need to account for natural capital – and the ecosystem services that it provides – when assessing progress toward sustainable human well-being.
That process – setting clear goals, picking the right approach, and then measuring results to get feedback and refine the approach continually –helps us to deliver tools and services to everybody who will benefit.
But now that we are measuring indicators like child mortality more precisely, people are able to see the impact that aid has in stark terms – that it means the difference between, say, giving people access to HIV treatment and letting them die.
Using Iceland as our measuring stick, the cost to Greece of not exiting the eurozone is equivalent to 75% of a year’s GDP – and counting.
But we can deduce their existence and attributes by measuring their effects on things that are directly observable.
In concrete terms, the ECB is measuring its policy’s success today according to the expected inflation rate in 2020-2025.
Second, with a new economic model must come new economic tools, including policy models that enable policymakers to advance their objectives effectively and means of measuring progress.
The GNH index and policy tools have helped to turn the notion of measuring and maximizing human well-being into an operational concept.
One of the oldest measuring devices ever used, the Lebombo Bone, was carved by people believed to have lived some 35,000 years ago in modern-day eSwatini (Swaziland).
But the World Bank’s poverty line of $1.25 per day (in purchasing-power-parity terms), which is used in measuring progress toward the MDGs’ poverty-reduction target, is not the only relevant threshold.
Although government statisticians do their best to gauge the rise in real GDP through time, there are two problems that are very difficult to overcome in measuring real incomes: increases in the quality of goods and services, and the introduction of new ones.
Good data are especially important for measuring “gainful employment,” which is defined by the type of work done by people already employed, labor productivity, earnings, and working conditions.
For example, in a recent paper, Shleifer and his co-authors measured government effectiveness by mailing letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries and measuring how long it took for the letters to be returned – or whether they were returned at all.
Progress was assessed by measuring changes in participants’ brains, hormones, health, behavior, and subjective sense of wellbeing.
Donald Trump’s campaign was measuring responses to 40-50,000 variants of ads every day, then tailoring and targeting their messaging accordingly.
Transparency International produces an annual ranking of “corruption perceptions,” measuring the public’s view of the extent of corruption in a country.
It is the most comprehensive framework developed for measuring social progress, and the first to measure social progress independently of GDP.
Measuring social progress offers citizens and leaders a more complete picture of how their country is developing.
Another way of measuring attitudes is to ask people what policies they support.
What all of this means is that by measuring the effectiveness of vaccines merely in terms of “lives saved,” we could be seriously underestimating the full extent of the benefits that they offer.
Addressing inequality requires measuring educational outcomes, rather than school enrollment rates.
His dictum remains true today, though when it comes to measuring human development, I would suggest a slight revision: “Not everything that is counted counts for everything.”
Last week, at the OECD’s sixth World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge, and Policy in Incheon, South Korea, the Group issued its report, Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance.
Another major problem is measuring progress in a given country over time.
Rather than simply looking at project inputs and outputs, the emphasis has turned towards measuring the overall impact of an operation.
The second missing element concerns the weight to be given to non-material factors when measuring the distribution of material rewards in richer countries as much as in poor ones.
At this month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24), held in the Polish coal-mining city of Katowice, negotiators barely managed to agree on a rulebook for implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, including a consistent methodology for measuring progress.
Much research has gone into measuring how serious these problems are in practice, and therefore whether private schools perform better or worse than public schools.
Using the UK Electricity Generation Costs 2010 update and measuring in cost per produced kilowatt-hour, wind is still 20-200% more expensive than the cheapest fossil-fuel options.
Kim is exactly right, and research has started measuring the economic costs of homophobia by exploring links between anti-gay sentiment and poverty in countries where laws and social attitudes proscribe same-sex relationships.
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