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This session discusses the future development of SDIs, including recommendations for structuring the development process, involving official statisticians, utilizing multi-variate statistical analysis, assessing SD trends, addressing new needs, and guiding future international work on Sustainable Development.
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Session IV: Future needs and recommendations Linkages: A keyword for SDI Discussant: Laurs Nørlund Eurostat CES Seminar on Sustainable Development (14 June 2005)
Main elementsof the UK paper • 3rd generation of indicators • Same framework as the policy one • Wide range of dissemination tools • Better integration is needed • Expectations change over time • Use of aggregate indices ? • Better assess and communicate
Main elementsof the OECD paper • Intense work since 1998 (frameworks, linkages, resources, etc..) • Core set of indicators • Conceptual and Statistical frameworks • Importance of inter-linkages • Necessity for common approaches
Common features • Linkages: a keyword for SDI • Linkage to policy action • Linkage between indicators: a sound framework • Linkage to methodological work ➲ What is the way forward?
Questions • Q1: What would be your recommendations to a country willing to start developing SDIs on how this development should be structured? • Q2: How to ensure a better involvement of official statisticians in the monitoring of SD Strategies?
Questions (ctd.) • Q3: What is the way forward about highly-aggregated indicators of SD? Should not we also make a more intensive use of multi-variate statistical analysis? • Q4: Should official statisticians be involved in the assessment of SD trends?
Questions (ctd.) • Q5: How can we best address new needs such as “global partnership” or “good governance” in the future? • Q6: What would be your practical recommendations to this Conference for future international work on Sustainable Development?