The OECD is ready to play a key role in helping to implement the recommendations of a commission of international experts on new ways of measuring well-being and progress, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said.
In remarks prepared for a 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. The OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” to be held in Busan, Korea, on 27-30 October 2009 will provide the next major international opportunity to advance the Commission’s recommendations.
The Commission, which includes five Nobel prize-winning economists – Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Kenneth Arrow, James Heckman and Daniel Kahneman – proposes new indicators to measure subjective aspects of social progress such as freedom, security and contentment as well as objective features including economic and ecological resources.
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