Reminder: This Thursday 9th March there will be a meeting of the RSS West Midlands Local Group, jointly organised with the RSS International Development Section. Matthew Powell, from Oxford Policy Management Institute, will present a talk on "Measuring Sustainable Development".
Date: Thursday 9th March 2017
Time: 5.00–6.00pm. Tea/coffee will be provided from 4.30–5.00pm and wine/cheese from 6.00pm onwards.
Venue: A1.01, Zeeman Building (Maths and Statistics), University of Warwick [campus map: http://campus.warwick.ac.uk/?search=A1.01&slid=41203 ]. Refreshments will be served before and afterwards in the Statistics Common Room (C0.06).
Title: Measuring Sustainable Development
Abstract: In September 2015 the United Nations general assembly adopted seventeen aspirational “Global Goals”, stretching from “No Poverty” to “Climate Action” to “Peace Justice and Strong institutions”.
The goals are associated with 169 “targets” and about 230 “global indicators”. The annual report on progress towards the targets which will cover every country, developed as well as developing. It is easy to be cynical about global initiatives and the validity of statistics on “strong institutions”, but experience in the UK and globally shows that such targets and indicators can have profound effects on behavior. The talk will cover the proposed SDG indicator system, the process and politics of developing global indicators, experience with the proceeding MDG indicators, and some of the outstanding technical statistical challenges for measuring SDG indicators.
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For more details, please check the RSS West Midlands Local Group web site: https://sites.google.com/view/rsswmlg
David Selby
PhD Student
Department of Statistics
University of Warwick
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