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On January 1, 1995 the OECD decided to stop classifying Singapore as a developing country and reclassified it along with Brunei, the Bahamas, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates as a "more advanced developing country". Two questions are addressed in this paper: 1. Why is it so hard to classify Singapore in the development spectrum? 2. Does Singapore have any special problems which preclude it from joining the ranks of the developed world? (DSE/DÜI)

En el presente estudio se utiliza tanto el analisis factorial como el acumulatorio para distribuir y clasificar, de mayor a menor desarrollo, los departamentos del Peru. Los resultados muestran que la principal fuente de disparidad entre los mismos son las variables vinculadas al estado de salud. El patron demografico e indicadores de industrializacion juegan tambien un rol importante. Esta investigacion confirma la hipotesis del caracter dual de la sociedad peruana y muestra las agudas diferencias que existen entre grupos de departamentos de acuerdo con su nivel de industrializacion y pobreza rural. (Apuntes/Lima)

Introduction to the book: indicators and post truth / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse -- Bellagio STAMP: principles for sustainability assessment and measurement / László Pintér, Peter Hardi, André Martinuzzi, Jon Hall -- Contributions to the Evolving theory and practice of indicators of sustainability / Arthur Lyon Dahl -- Substantiating the rough consensus on concept of sustainable development as point of departure for indicator development / Walter J.V. Vermeulen -- From crises and gurus to science and metrics: Yale's Environmental Performance Index and the rise of data-driven policymaking / Daniel C. Esty and John W. Emerson -- The limits of sustainability and resilience frameworks: lessons from agri-food system research / Sarah Rotz and Evan Fraser -- Lessons from the history of GDP in the effort to create better indicators of prosperity, well-being, and happiness / Robert Costanza, Maureen Hart, Ida Kubiszewski, Steve Posner, and John Talberth -- A systems-theoretical perspective on sustainable development and indicators / Paul-Marie Boulanger -- World views, interests and indicator choices / Joachim H. Spangenberg -- Sustainability indicators and certification schemes for the built environment / Catalina Turcu -- Measuring water scarcity and water consumption / Jonathan Chenoweth -- Participatory approaches for the development and evaluation of Sustainability Indicators / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse -- Environmental governance indicators and indices in support of policy-making / Dora Almassy and Laszlo Pinter -- Environmentally Sustainable National Income, an Indicator / Roefie Hueting and Bart de Boer -- Green accounting: balancing environment and economy / Peter Bartelmus -- Ecological Footprint Accounts: Principles / Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Laurel Hanscom, David Lin, Laetitia Mailhes and Tony Drummond -- Governing by numbers: China, Viet Nam, and Malaysia's adaptation of the Environmental Performance Index / Angel Hsu -- The Human Sustainable Development Index / Giangiacomo Bravo -- The Environmental Performance Index: does this reflect reality? / Elisabeth Conrad and Louis F Cassar -- Sustainability-related indicators developed for governments / Lucas Reijnders -- Sustainable development indicators Finland: Going from large descriptive sets to target oriented actively used indicators / Ulla Rosenström -- The Socio-Ecological System (SES) approach to sustainable development indicators / Gilberto C. Gallopin -- UNEP and the CSD process for sustainable development indicators / Arthur Lyon Dahl -- Prospects for standardising sustainable urban development / Simon Joss and Yvonne Rydin -- Stakeholder-driven initiatives using sustainability indicators / Ana Rita Domingues, Rodrigo Lozano and Tomás B. Ramos -- How evil is aggregation? lessons from the Dashboard of Sustainability / Jochen Jesinghaus -- Criteria and indicators to audit the performance of complex, multi-functional forest landscapes / Dwi Amalia Sari, Chris Margules, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono and Jeffrey Sayer -- The devil is in the detail! Sustainability assessment of African smallholder farming by/ Wytze Marinus, Esther Ronner, Gerrie W. J. van de Ven, Fred Kanampiu, Samuel Adjei-Nsiah and Ken E. Giller -- Sustainable agricultural intensification and measuring the immeasurable: Do we have a choice? / Philip Grabowski, Mark Musumba, Cheryl Palm and Sieglinde Snapp -- Relevance: A neglected feature of sustainability indicators / Svatava Janouková, Tomás Hák and Bedrich Moldan -- Measurement matters: toward data-driven environmental policy-making / Daniel C. Esty -- Meta-evaluation of Sustainability Indicators: from organizational to national level / Tomás B. Ramos and Sandra Caeiro -- Ecological Footprint Accounts: criticisms and applications / Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Laurel Hanscom, David Lin, Laetitia Mailhes and Tony Drummond -- Where next? / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse

This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it traces a time line of different historical periods that have shaped livelihoods of ordinary people of the region, and addresses the major milestones in political and economic development. It focuses on social indicators pointing to significant changes that have affected the health, education and wealth of sub-Saharan Africans and their outlook on the future since the wind of change blew through the region. With case studies and vignettes the book highlights how individual citizens across the 44 different countries of sub-Saharan Africa experience well-being and express their aspirations for the future. This book provides relevant material for practitioners and policy makers, including community and development workers, in non-governmental and other organizations in sub-Saharan African countries

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