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Understanding Progress: A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Wellbeing and Sustainability

This comprehensive exploration of progress presents diverse perspectives on what it means to improve life across various dimensions, including society, economy, and environment. The discussion emphasizes that progress is not one-size-fits-all; it varies from person to person. By proposing a set of clear, unambiguous measures, the work encourages readers to weigh factors according to their values. Key topics include wellbeing, quality of life, sustainability, and the importance of focusing on trade-offs and the distribution of progress, using real-world examples.

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Understanding Progress: A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Wellbeing and Sustainability

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  1. What is Progress – How to Measure It? Jon Hall, OECD Statistics, Knowledge, Policy World Forum

  2. What is Progress? • Many views … “Is life getting better?” Sustainability... Wellbeing ... Quality of Life

  3. What is Progress? • Many views …. • But what is clear (to me) is • A.Progress is multidimensional

  4. What is Progress? society economy

  5. What is environmentalProgress? air biodiversity land water

  6. What is Progress? • Many views … • But what is clear to me is • A. Progress is multidimensional • B. Progress means different things to different people

  7. What is Progress?

  8. What is Progress?

  9. What is Progress?

  10. How to Measure it? • If progress is multi dimensional and means different things to different people then one must … • Provide a set of measures • And allow readers to apply their own weights to form their own view

  11. How to Measure it? • Measures should be “unambiguous" that is have a clear good/bad direction of movement • Important to focus on the big picture • Important to discuss trade-offs and reinforcements Life expectancy √ X Numbers of patients treated X

  12. Trade-offs

  13. Reinforcements

  14. How to Measure it? • Also important to paint the distributional picture

  15. Distribution of Progress

  16. Some Examples • Australia

  17. Some Examples • Ireland

  18. Some Examples • Alcoa - Spain

  19. Some Examples • Millenium Development Goals

  20. Thank you

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