Maitreyi Bordia Das, Lead Social Development Specialist and Team Leader for Social Inclusion in the Social Development Department of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., just posted a nice piece on the Social Progress Index and why she likes it. I have been mulling over the Social Progress Index, since the beta version came out in 2013. This “new” measure does two things that I like – first, it takes into account subjective views of citizens (it’s not just how well your government or researchers think you are doing; it’s how well you think you’re doing). Second, it does not include an economic measure (but you can easily plot the index against economic measures. The documents related to the Social Progress Index do this and show that countries that perform well on an aggregate economic measure don’t always do as well on social measures). Read more by clicking below
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:32:12 +0000
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