1 What is Progress – How to Measure It? Jon Hall, OECD Statistics, Knowledge, Policy World Forum
2 What is Progress? Many views … “Is life getting better?”
3 What is Progress? Many views …. But what is clear (to me) is A. Progress is multidimensional
4 What is Progress? economysociety
5 What is environmental Progress? water land biodiversity air
6 What is Progress? Many views … But what is clear to me is A. Progress is multidimensional B. Progress means different things to different people
7 What is Progress?
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10 How to Measure it? If progress is multi dimensional and means different things to different people then one must … Provide a set of measures And allow readers to apply their own weights to form their own view
11 How to Measure it? Measures should be “unambiguous" that is have a clear good/bad direction of movement Important to focus on the big picture Important to discuss trade-offs and reinforcements
12 Trade-offs
13 Reinforcements
14 How to Measure it? Also important to paint the distributional picture
15 Distribution of Progress
16 Some Examples Australia
17 Some Examples Ireland
18 Some Examples Alcoa - Spain
19 Some Examples Millenium Development Goals
20 Thank you