1. 1 What is Progress – How to Measure It? Jon Hall, OECD Statistics, Knowledge, Policy World Forum

2. 2 What is Progress? Many views … “Is life getting better?”

3. 3 What is Progress? Many views …. But what is clear (to me) is A. Progress is multidimensional

4. 4 What is Progress? economysociety

5. 5 What is environmental Progress? water land biodiversity air

6. 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. 7 What is Progress?

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10. 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. 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. 12 Trade-offs

13. 13 Reinforcements

14. 14 How to Measure it? Also important to paint the distributional picture

15. 15 Distribution of Progress

16. 16 Some Examples Australia

17. 17 Some Examples Ireland

18. 18 Some Examples Alcoa - Spain

19. 19 Some Examples Millenium Development Goals

20. 20 Thank you