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Development beyond GDP
Gregor Aisch, Hannes Bredschneider, Rosamaria Bitetti, Velichka
Dimitrova, Dirk Heine, Guo Xu, Friedrich Lindenberg, Giacomo
Luchetta, Rufus Pollock, Marian Steinbach, Stefan Wehrmeyer
OpenEconomics.Net
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Need indices to mainstream
development concern:
EU & OECD (JCR), UNDP (MPI)
Mashups = arbitrary assumptions!
(Ravallion 2010, Stiglitz et al 2009)
● Categories of progress
● Proxies for those categories
● Weighting
● Shadow-pricing
● Discounting
3.
User determines weights
categories, indicators,
shadow prices; etc.
Society-driven, non-arbitary, Participatory → interest-generating
4.
Vision
1. Mainstream awareness of complexity of
development → why specific targets, not just GDP.
2. Make progress measurement indices accessible
- Game approach
- Build your own index
- Don't know good index? – And 5k friends jointly?
5.
Engaging
citizens in a
dialogue on the
drivers and
seriousness of
intra-regional
divides
6.
Engaging
citizens in a
dialogue on the
drivers and
seriousness of
intra-regional
divides
7.
Medium-term objective: Participative index to
complement high-frequency indicators
↪ wiki.okfn.org/ProgressVote