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		      <pubDate>Thu Oct 08 14:59:53 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Newsletter Issue 6 - September 2009 ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[In this issue: Ecological Footprint Accounting; Measuring the Progress of Communities; Switzerland moves on!; The Global Social Change Research Project; Superme Audit Institutions application of progress measurement Key National Indicators; Liveability audit in regional Queensland, Australia. Highlights: 3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, Korea - 27-30 October 2009. Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies".]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[OECD Secretary-General and new measures of social progress]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[In remarks prepared for the workshop on the findings of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress set up by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Gurría noted that the OECD is well placed to lead international cooperation on harmonising concepts and methodologies]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Report of French President Sarkozy's  Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, was released in Paris on the 14th of September. The report is online at www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[ICT4Progress.org]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,3343,en_40033426_40037426_40037831_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=40033828]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[New Website for ICT sharing tools: www.ICT4Progress.org.  The purpose of this website is to allow collaboration of ICT projects, by sharing the actual source code, application, tools and design with other developers or interested users from all around the world. This website enables a community of innovative technology experts to benefit from each other's tools, expertise and knowledge and for users to acquire on new tools.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[The Happy Planet Index 2.0]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which country by country, people live long and happy lives.Read more on "The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the Earth: Why good lives don’t have to cost the Earth"]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[AFTER 2015: PROMOTING PRO-POOR POLICY AFTER THE MDGs]]></title>
							         <link><![CDATA[http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/13/43148514.pdf]]></link>
							         <description><![CDATA[Read the Institute of Development Studies new policy briefings on  AFTER 2015: PROMOTING PRO-POOR POLICY AFTER THE MDGs - with briefings on 3d Human Wellbeing (that discusses the work of the Global Project); Gender Equality and Low Carbon Growth. The ‘After 2015’ debate is about questioning the value of an MDG-type, target-based approach to international development, about progress so far on poverty reduction, about looking to an uncertain future and exploring what kind of system we will need after the MDG deadline has passed. ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the INTOSAI]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The International Society of Supreme Audit Institutions have created a special working group on key national indicators  under the chairmanship of Sergey Stepashin, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[The new Canadian Institute of Wellbeing and Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW)]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The new Canadian Institute of Wellbeing and its signature product, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) has just been launched. Their first report "How are Canadians really doing?" summarizes the key findings of the first three research studies on Living Standards, Health Populations and Community Vitality.Please read more at www.ciw.ca  ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[2009 Global Peace Index]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The Results Report outline that the world has become slightly less peaceful in the past year. This appears to reflect the intensification of violent conflict in some countries and the effects of both the rapidly rising food and fuel prices early in 2008 and the dramatic global economic downturn in the final quarter of the year.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[3rd OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy”]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The 3rd OECD World Forum, organised by the OECD and the Government of Korea (Korean National Statistical Office), will focus on three major questions: What does progress mean for our societies?; What are the new paradigms to measure progress?; and How can there be better policies within these new paradigms to foster the progress of our societies? The current economic crisis makes these questions even more important and the answers more urgent.  
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							         <pubDate>Thu May 28 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Newsletter Issue 5 - May 2009 ]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[In this Issue: Is the West really the Best? (Australia 21 Ltd.); Project to measure progress: Internet service with a hundred indicators (Finland); Quality of Life: A Framework for Assessing the Progress of Societies (Mexico). Highlights: 3rd OECD World Forum, Busan, Korea - 27-30 October 2009. Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"; Governance Structure, Training Courses and Future Events.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu May 28 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA["Taxonomy" to measure the progress of societies]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[A draft paper from the Global Project that sets out a proposed "Taxonomy"  to measure the progress of societies has been sent for peer review to our network. It is drawn on the interactions between the Human system and the Ecosystem.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu May 28 00:00:00 CEST 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge   July 15-16, 2009 in Washington, DC, USA.  The OECD, the US Census Bureau, and the World Bank are sponsoring this joint seminar which is about the art of making statistics understandable and appealing to modern audiences. Leading-edge products will be showcased.    
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							         <pubDate>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[ Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[On International Women’s Day, 8th of March 2009, the OECD Development Centre will present a new index to track the causes of gender discrimination in 102 developing countries.  While other ratings tend to focus on the outcomes of inequality such as personal income, the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) draws on 12 innovative variables to take into account the ways in which women in many developing countries are deprived of social and economic development.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Measuring the Progress of Societies: What is the Relevance for Asia and the Pacific?]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[During the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ESCAP) meeting of the Committee on Statistics, First session 4-6 February 2009 Bangkok, delegates spoke positively about the Global Project. Opportunities to strengthen the relationships between the Global Project’s activities and ESCAP and its Committee on Statistics were highlighted. Read more: Measuring the Progress of Societies: What is the Relevance for Asia and the Pacific?.]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Progress what Progress?  by Joseph Stiglitz]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[We have known for years that human economic activity exhausts our natural resources and damages our fragile environment, yet economists and governments have been slow to incorporate them into their measurements." written by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz. 
Read his inspiring article on: "Progress what Progress?"
http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2793/Progress,_what_progress_.html]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress is based on increasing concerns about the adequacy of current measures of economic performance.  There are broader concerns about the relevance of these figures as measures of societal well-being, as well as measures of economic, environmental, and social sustainability. See more on the  Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies" homepage.  ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[National Accounts of Well-being - Nef]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[The development of comprehensive measures of well-being and societal progress is fundamental to improve policy making and the functioning of our societies. The integration of classical national accounts with measures of other dimensions of individual and societal well-being is a very promising way to go. This report represents an important step in this direction.See more on http://www.nationalaccountsofwellbeing.org/]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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							         <title><![CDATA[Newsletter Issue 4 - February 2009]]></title>
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							         <description><![CDATA[Newsletter Issue 4 - February 2009  In this Issue: Experts discuss issues on Progress;National Accounts of Well-Being (UK); Australian Treasury’s Well-being Framework; Sustainable Society Index (SSI) in Romania; Beyond GDP, Mexico, Gross National Happiness in Brazil. Highlights: Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, including Training Courses and Future Events; Paradiso Conference - Proceedings; Sustainability Modelling. ]]></description>
							         <pubDate>Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 CET 2009</pubDate>
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