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Progress in the News

• Helen Clark - Remarks At the Launch of the UNDP Africa Human Development Report 2012 (All Africa 15.05.2012)
• Gallup Wellbeing Index says 31 per cent of Indians are suffering (Business Today 15.05.2012)
• As China gets richer, its people don't get happier (KPCC 15.05.2012)
• Sustainable Development Goals – do we really need another set of international targets? (IDS 14.05.2012)

Blogs on progress

• The Egyptian revolution can still fulfil its promise (Poverty Matters 01.05.2012)
• Climate change is a human rights issue – and that's how we can solve it (The Guardian 24.04.2012)

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Social Indicators

There are a number of definitions of Social Indicators (SI). Bauer described them as forms of evidence that help assessment of present position and future directions. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) stated that a SI is a “direct and valid statistical measure which monitors levels and changes over time in a fundamental social concern.” A social concern is “an identifiable and definable aspiration or concern of fundamental and direct importance to human well-being”. Indicators may be material, such as numbers related to economic growth, and/or immaterial, such as values or goals.