Community Portal October 2009
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Progress in the News
Progress over product (JoongAng Daily 31.10.2009)
In March 1989, the Alaskan oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and leaked 40,000 cubic meters of oil. Around 2,000 kilometers of seashore...
A Better Measure than GDP (TIME 29.10.09)
French president Nicolas Sarkozy drew heat last month when he suggested that countries should factor happiness into their statistics for growth...
OECD chief upbeat about Korea's economy (The Korea Herald 28.10.09)
BUSAN -- Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said yesterday he was optimistic...
Ways sought to track happiness (JoongAng Daily 28.10.2009)
The third OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” kicked off yesterday at the southern Korean port city of Busan...
Le bonheur est-il mesurable? (French) (Le Tigre 28.10.09)
Des experts étudient les moyens de mieux évaluer le progrès des sociétés. L’idée est de ne plus prendre en compte le seul résultat économique...
Experts debate well-being measures (Taipei Times 28.10.09)
‘BEYOND GDP’: The secretary-general of the OECD said unless leaders better measure the quality of life, people could lose faith in markets...
World leaders call for quality of life index (The Korea Herald 28.10.09)
Participants in a forum of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development called for new ways to measure quality of life beyond the conventional...
Forum seeks to assess world well-being (AFP 27.10.2009)
SEOUL — International experts Tuesday debated ways to measure the world's well-being, in line with G20 calls for statisticians to...
A crisis of statistics by Angel Gurría (European Voice.com 27.10.2009)
We need our statistics to give a more accurate picture of society and the economy, writes the head of the OECD. The worst economic crisis...
Forum seeks to assess world's wellbeing vs wealth (The Sydney Morning Herald 27.10.2009)
International experts Tuesday began a four-day meeting focusing on ways to measure the wellbeing of the world rather than purely its wealth....
Korea to Develop Happiness Index (the Korea Times 27.10.2009)
President Lee Myung-bak unveiled a plan Tuesday to create an index that can measure people's happiness and quality of life, saying policymakers...
OECD Forum Kicks off in South Korea (crienglish.com 27.10.2009)
The Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD) World Forum kicked off on Monday in South Korea's southeastern port...
S. Korean president calls for new development model for OECD countries (Yonhap News 27.10.2009)
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urged world leaders Tuesday to develop a new growth model, saying the existing paradigm of economic...
Tuerk Discusses Progress of Societies at OECD Forum (Sta 27.10.2009)
President Danilo Tuerk delivered in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday an opening address at the global OECD forum themed with measuring...
OECD World Forum to talk quality, not quantity (The Korea Herald 22.10.2009)
The upcoming World Forum in Busan will serve as a great opportunity to introduce the Korean economy's growth in terms of quality, Yi In-sill...
Is It a Day to Be Happy? Check the Index (New York Times 11.10.2009)
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, created a commission last year that included the Nobel Prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen to ...
OECD World Forum comes to Busan in Oct. (Korea Herald 9.10.2009)
The National Statistical Office said yesterday it will jointly hold the third OECD World Forum with the Organization for Economic Cooperation...
Answering Your Questions on the Economy (New York Times (blog) 06.10.2009) The economists Sen and Stiglitz recently were on a commission appointed by President Sarkozy to develop a better measure of economic success than GDP. ...
A better measure of society's wellbeing (Brisbane Times 03.10.2009) WE SEEM to have lost our sense of the common good, a belief in shared destiny, despite signs that economically, environmentally and socially our lives...
Blogging on Progress
100 indicators of well-being or just one? Stiglitz v Layard (Oxfam Blog 30.10.09)
The OECD conference I’ve been attending is winding down. Lots of banquets, but not much booze, so I never had to try the hotel’s tempting room...
Why demanding ‘political will’ is lazy and unproductive (Oxfam Blog 29.10.09)
I find myself getting increasingly exasperated by the term ‘political will’. Let me explain. The standard NGO shtick, whether on development,...
How could we measure well-being in a crisis? Some thoughts from Korea (Oxfam 28.10.09)
I am currently in Korea’s second city, Busan, attending a big OECD conference on ‘statistics, knowledge and policy’, organized by
Migration and development: how to improve on a feeble new Human Development Report (Oxfam Blog 20.10.2009)
The Human Development Report, published by UNDP, is traditionally the best of the UN annual tomes. This year’s HDR, entitled Overcoming...
GLOBAL: OECD world forum in Busan (University World News 11.10.2009) Assessing the progress and failings of our societies requires a far broader set of measures than just economic indicators. This is why international experts in fields as diverse...
