There have been significant efforts at the international, regional and national levels to define, develop and use indicators to measure sustainability. Most significant of these was the United Nations ...

The Africa Development Indicators 2012/13 is the latest data from the World Bank on social and economic conditions across the continent There is increased demand for information to monitor development ...

Africa has been widely recognized as the poorest continent (World Bank, 1989, 2001, 2006; Mabogunje, 2004; Bigsten and Durevall, 2008; Ogbuji, 2009; Olaopa and Uzodike, 2009; Assefa, 2010). In 2005, ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Foreword: Finding the Right Indicators for Policymaking Foreword: Finding the ...

Development moving on an uneven path because State have a very high GDP that might be derived from the exploitation of rich oil reserves but their segments of the population live in poverty and lack ...

The production of indicators, such as the World Economic Forum’s ranking of economies on competitiveness, is a political process. Reuters/Victor Ruiz Garcia With the turn to evidence-based governance, ...

Eleven media experts from across the Arab region discovered a new way to assess media landscapes last week during an intensive training workshop organized by UNESCO in Amman, Jordan. The three-day ...