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In the Spotlight: Nic Marks discusses the Happy Planet Index at TEDGlobal


The founder of the Centre for Well-Being, an independent think tank at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), in London, Marks is particularly keen to promote a balance between sustainable development and quality of life. Watch the video.

See more on the New Economics Foundation and the Happy Planet Index


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Media

See in the section below contains news articles and blogs that have been released this month.


Progress in the News (September 2010)

<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1307965/Life-begin-40--wont-happy-reach-55-say-researchers.html">Life no longer begins at 40... as Baby Gloomers have to wait until they're 54 for true happiness to arrive</a> (Mail Online 02.09.2010)

If you're still clinging to the hope that life begins at 40, you could be in line for a long wait.

A new report released today by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, ranks the states with the best policies “to accelerate demand for energy efficiency services, businesses, and ultimately jobs.”


What makes Sustainable Development both an interesting and frustrating field of study is that it's not environment or economics, it's not people or nature... it's all of these things and then some.


News highlights from last month

The US comes second in a new quality of life index designed to be mathematically objective.


Indices, data, GDP, happiness: “Good practices” for comparative reports when using data?


Warren Buffett likes to say that anything good that’s ever happened to him can be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country—America—at the right time. And it’s true: while remarkable individuals can be found in any nation on earth, certain countries give their citizens much greater opportunity to succeed than others at certain points in time


For most of the last seven decades, which is to say about as long as economists have been calculating what’s now called “gross domestic product,” it’s been criticized for being, well, too gross.


The headlines were grim, and a blow to India’s self-conception as a rising economic power. “New poverty index finds Indian states worse than Africa,” announced an Indian newspaper.


"We must be able to continue accessing the data that is uniquely available through the Canada census if we are to improve the lives of all Canadians" says the Honourable Roy J. Romanow, Chair, Canadian Index of Wellbeing Advisory Board.


Blogs on progress (September 2010)

What makes Sustainable Development both an interesting and frustrating field of study is that it’s not environment or economics, it’s not people or nature… it’s all of these things and then some.


Blog highlights from last month

United States based Newsweek magazine has ranked living conditions in 100 countries around the world and in the magazine’s analysis, Nigeria was judged to be second to the worst while Finland is the best.


French president Nicolas Sarkozy (seen here enjoying an afternoon on the beach) thinks we should. And he enlisted the help of two world-class economists to help him figure out how...

Sure, economic indicators are important measures of how were doing, but they don't tell the entire story.


At Duncan Green’s blog, there is a fascinating back-and-forth on the UN’s new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) between its co-creator, Sabina Alkire, and the World Bank’s Martin Ravallion. This is very much a live debate in development circles. The MPI is a descendant of the earlier Human Development Index and is similar to the various Unsatisfied Basic Needs indices long used in many countries.


Progress papers and reports released this month

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Debates

This is more of a back and forth than a debate. The subject is the recently launched Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Duncan Green, renowned blogger for the Oxfam blog From Poverty to Power, gives a brief overview of the new index. World Bank research director, Martin Ravallion criticizes the MPI for two key reasons, firstly the aggregation of indicators to a single index and secondly the choice of weights for the index. Finally Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and co-creator of the Index, defends her work and responds to both previous posts. For further background information, see Multidimensional Poverty Index


Background and introduction to the debate: The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has been working for years to try and develop such metrics, and they recently launched the ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index’ (MPI), which will feature in this year’s UNDP Human Development Report, celebrating its 20th anniversary. I’ll briefly summarize it here, before unleashing an exchange of guest blogs between the World Bank and OPHI.


Martin Ravallion is Director of the World Bank’s research department, the Development Research Group. 


Sabina Alkire responds to the previous posts by Martin Ravallion and Duncan Green. 


Newsletters

In this issue: Introduction from the OECD Chief Statistician, Martine Durand; A strategic overview of the OECD's contribution to the Global Project; Measuring Progress in Italy; Highlights from the 3rd OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy; Using DevInfo to Measure the Progress of Societies; Arizona Indicators; The UNDP HDR Report: 20 years on. Released July 1st 2010


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