Statistics, Knowledge and Policy [E-Book]: Key Indicators to Inform Decision Making / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
This publication contains the proceedings of the World Forum on Key Indicators held in Palermo in November 2004. In it, statisticians from governmental statistical offices, international organisations, and academia explain why indicator systems are useful and how statistics can be used, how to imple...
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Paris :
OECD Publishing,
2005
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644 p. ; 19x27cm. |
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englisch |
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9789264009011 |
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10.1787/9789264009011-en |
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Economics |
- The First World Forum on Key Indicators by Enrico Giovannini
- I. Keynote Speeches
- The ECB's Use of Statistics and Other Information for Monetary Policy by Jean-Claude Trichet
- Key National Indicator Systems: An Opportunity to Maximize National Progress and Strengthen Accountability by David M. Walker
- Building Knowledge by Donald J. Johnston
- II. National Case Studies
- Developing Key national Indicators for the United States by Katherine Wallman, Kenneth Prewitt, and Susan Schechter
- Measuring for Decision Making: Soft and Hard Use of Indicators in Regional Development Policies by Fabrizio Barca
- Measuring for Decision Making - Official Statistics for Decision Making and Evaluation: Territorial Indicators by Luigi Biggeri
- Measures of Australia's Progress - A Case Study of a National Report Based on Key Economic, Social, and Environment Indicators by Dennis Trewin and Jon Hall
- Statistical Indicators for Broad Policy Purposes in Ireland: Developing the Consensus between Statistics and Politics by Donal Garvey
- III. Improving Economic Indicators
- Measurement of Government Output and Productivity for the National Accounts in the UK: "The Atkinson Review" by Joe Grice
- OECD's Role in Global Governance: The Contribution of Structrural Indicators and Benchmarking by Jean-Philippe Cotis
- The Impact of Statistics on a Competitive and Knowledge-Based Economy by Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz
- IV. Measuring the Environment
- Composite Indicators of Environmental Sustainability by Bedřich Moldan, Tomáš Hák, Jan Kovanda, Miroslav Havránek, Petra Kušková
- The Reduction of Complexity by Means of Indicators: Case Studies in the Environmental Domain by Walter Radermacher
- V. Statistics for Society
- Indicators and Social Accounting for 21st Century Social Policy by Gøsta Esping-Andersen
- Social Inclusion – Do We Have the Right Indicators? by Bjørn Hvinden
- Social Indicator Systems: Foundations for Policy Design and Evaluation? by Ken Tallis
- VI. The Information Society: Measurement Issues and the Impact on Policy Making
- Information Society: From Statistical Measurement to Policy Assessment by Tony Clayton
- Measurements in Support of Policy Decisions by Kaija Hovi
- The Use and Abuse of Real-Time and Anecdotal Information in Monetary Policy Making by Evan F. Koenig
- VII. Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Services
- Indicators on Public Administration: Democracy, Efficiency, Due Process of Law by Richard Murray
- Healthy People: Three Decades of National Health by Edward J. Sondik and Richard J. Klein
- VIII. Regional Indicators and Fund Allocation
- International Benchmarking as a Tool for Regional Policy Making: Experiences and Challenges by Christoph Koellreuter
- The Spatial Monitoring System of the German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) as a Tool for Political Counselling by Wendelin Strubelt
- IX. Planning for the Future
- Societal Indicators and Government-Wide Reporting in the Government of Canada by Louise Bellefeuille-Prégent and Tim Wilson
- Natural Capital: New Measures to Monitor the Economy’s Ecological Foundations by Carolyn Cahill
- Using Quality of Life Indicators to Inform Policy and Planning: A New Zealand Example by Leigh Gatt
- X. Indicators and Benchmarking
- Indicators and Benchmarking as a Support to the Decision-Making Process: The Italian Experience in Active Employment Policies by Aviana Bulgarelli
- New Public Management Reform and the Legacy of the Developmental State in Korea by Chonghee Han
- Composite Indicators – The Controversy and the Way Forward by Andrea Saltelli, Michela Nardo, Michaela Saisana and Stefano Tarantola
- XI. Cross Country Comparisons
- Millennium Development Goals: Measuring and Monitoring Global Progress by Paul Cheung
- Indicators for EU Policy Making: The Example of Structural Indicators by Pedro Díaz Munoz
- XII. Politics and Statistics
- The Use of Indicators for Better Policy Making by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi and Gian Paolo Ruggiero
- Sustainable Development Indicators for Policy Making by Thorvald Moe
- XIII. The Role of Central Banks
- Statistics, Accounts and Key Indicators Compiled by Central Banks: The Case of the ECB by Steven Keuning and Alda Morais
- Financial Stability Policy and Statistics by Toshio Idesawa
- XIV. The Role of Civil Society
- Collaborating with Civil Society: Reflections from Australia by Jon Hall, Chris Carswell, René Jones and David Yencken
- Measuring and Monitoring Economic and Social Well-Being: Comments from a Labour Perspective by Andrew Jackson
- Using Indicators to Engage Citizens: The Oregon Progress Board Experience by Jeffrey Tryens
- XV. Making Governments Accountable
- China’s Economic Indicator System and Government Auditing by Li Jinhua
- Indicators and Public Accountability in India by Vijayendra N. Kaul
- Enhancing Public Accountability: National Performance Indicators and the Role of the Board of Audit of Japan by Muneharu Otsuka
- XVI. Advocacy, Numeracy, and the Role of Media
- Agree on Numbers while Discussing Words. Or Is It Just the Opposite? by Luca De Biase
- Good and Bad in Britain and What the Press Makes of It by Simon Briscoe
- The Growing Demand for Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities by Pilar Martín-Guzmán
- New Software Brings Statistics Beyond the Eye by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling
- Workshops
- -Measurement of Social Capital in the UK by Penny Babb
- Towards an Atlas of Social Capital and Institutions in Italy: Strategy, Developments and Open Issues by Alessandra Righi
- Gender Statistics and the Work of the National Development
- Plan Gender Equality Unit, Ireland by Mark P. Manto
- Gender Equality Statistics and Indicators: The Canadian Experience by Brigitte Neumann, Sheila Regehr and Leroy Stone
- Rewarding Jobs: Government Policy and Work Incentives by Christopher Heady and Herwig Immervoll
- Opening Remarks to the Workshop on FDI Statistics for Policy Making by William H. Witherell
- Measuring Foreign Direct Investment by Ayse Bertrand
- Multiple Indicators for Multiple Uses: United States Statistics on Foreign Direct Investment by Obie G. Whichard
- Agricultural Support Indicators: Measurement, Meaning and Use by Wilfred Legg
- Additional Resources including the Knowledge Base are available Online at: http://www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum