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

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Need indicesNeed indices to mainstreamdevelopment concern:

EU & OECD (JCR), UNDP (MPI)

Mashups = arbitrary assumptions!Mashups = arbitrary assumptions!(Ravallion 2010, Stiglitz et al 2009)

● Categories of progress● Proxies for those categories

● Weighting ● Shadow-pricing

● Discounting

User determinesUser determines weightscategories, indicators, shadow prices; etc.

Society-driven, non-arbitary, Participatory → interest-generating

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?

Engaging citizens in a

dialogue on the drivers and

seriousness of intra-regional

divides

Engaging citizens in a

dialogue on the drivers and

seriousness of intra-regional

divides

Medium-term objective: Participative index to complement high-frequency indicators

↪ wiki.okfn.org/ProgressVote

We hope you will join us!

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