Is life getting better? Are our societies making progress? Indeed, what does “progress” mean to the world’s citizens? There can be few questions of greater importance in today’s rapidly changing world.  And yet how many of us have the evidence to answer these questions?

The Global Project on "Measuring the Progress of Societies"- hosted by the OECD and run in collaboration with other international and regional partners - it seeks to become the world wide reference point for those who wish to measure, and assess the progress of their societies. Read more about -  What we are doing

    now updated with links to all of the presentations  www.oecd.org/progress/korea

We are happy to announce the launch of Prog Blog. This is a new blog to share experiences. It will discuss topics such as how to create better measures to evaluate the well-being of societies.

Survey finds little faith in statistics.  Most people in the US and leading European economies have no confidence in official figures and believe they are distorted by politicians, a survey for the Financial Times has found. Read the Article 

Culture - A symbolic or economic success factor for urban development planning?   The objective of the work carried out was to highlight a dual challenge: to put into place for the very first time an international sample group and to establish a barometer designed to bring to light cultural integration strategies as part of economic development. A study by Ineum Consulting for the Forum d’Avignon

Statistics and the quality of life. Measuring progress – a world beyond GDP. 
Article by Monika Hoegen, Edited by Thomas Wollnik 

e-Learning Course on " Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change" from March 1st to April 2nd, 2010. Read more Please register by 15th of February 2010.

The Foundation World Future Council  will host a Panel Series in January and February 2010,  on New Wellbeing measures and its relevance for the EU 2020 Strategy (New Lisbon Agenda) presenting the work of the Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, read more.

• BellagioSTAMP - SusTainability Assessment and Measurement Principles. A new set of guiding principles used to measure and assess progress towards sustainability. They were written by a group of international experts meeting in Bellagio, Italy, organized by IISD and the OECD's Measuring the Progress of Societies initiative.

• The Foro Consultivo Cientifico y Tecnológico has published "Measuring the progress of societies. Reflections from Mexico", a book concerning the theme of progress, which set of new indicators ought to be used in order to measure the progress of societies and also aims to promote a general and desirable reflection in Mexico. 

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