Paul Dolan,
Paul Dolan,
Professor of Economics, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London
Paul Dolan is Professor of Economics at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London. The general theme of his research activities is how individual and social well-being should be defined, measured and distributed for the purposes of informing public policy. He was previously Director of the Centre for Well-being in Public Policy at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University. Paul was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics in 2002 for his contribution to health economics.
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Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies
The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies exists to foster the development of sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators to provide a comprehensive picture of how the well-being of a society is evolving. Visit our website: www.oecd.org/progress Online now! 
OECD Factbook 2008: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics
With a special focus on productivity Quotes Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD"Measuring whether life is getting better is one of the most important roles the OECD can take on". Mamphela Ramphele, Co-chair, Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM)"The measurement of anything that is of importance elevates its importance". Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP"World GDP growth has been faster than it has been for a very long time. But people are not particularly happy". François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank"Progress indicators are a way for people to hold their governments accountable". |
