Statistics, Knowledge and Policy : Key Indocators to Inform Decision Making

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""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""The First World Forum on Key Indicators""; ""Keynote Speeches""; ""The ECB�s Use of Statistics and Other Information for Monetary Policy""; ""Key National Indicator Systems: An Opportunity to Maximize National Progress and Strengthen Accountability""; ""Building Knowledge""; ""National Case Studies""; ""Developing Key National Indicators for the United States""; ""Measuring for Decision Making: Soft and Hard Use of Indicators in Regional Development Policies"" ""Measuring for Decision Making Official Statistics for Decision Making and Evaluation: Territorial Indicators""""Measures of Australia�s Progress � A Case Study of a National Report Based on Key Economic, Social and Environment Indicators""; ""Statistical Indicators for Broad Policy Purposes in Ireland: Developing the Consensus between Statistics and Politics""; ""Improving Economic Indicators""; ""Measurement of Government Output and Productivity for the National Accounts in the UK: ""The Atkinson Review"""" ""OECD�S Role in Global Governance: The Contribution of Structural Indicators and Benchmarking""""The Impact of Statistics on a Competitive and Knowledge-based Economy""; ""Measuring the Environment""; ""Composite Indicators of Environmental Sustainability""; ""The Reduction of Complexity by Means of Indicators � Case Studies in the Environmental Domain""; ""Statistics for Society""; ""Indicators and Social Accounting for 21st Century Social Policy""; ""Social Inclusion � Do We Have the Right Indicators?""; ""Social Indicator Systems � Foundations for Policy Design and Evaluation?"" ""The Information Society: Measurement Issues and the Impact on Policy Making""""Information Society: From Statistical Measurement to Policy Assessment""; ""Measurements in Support of Policy Decisions""; ""The Use and Abuse of Real-Time and Anecdotal Information in Monetary Policy Making""; ""Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Services""; ""Indicators on Public Administration: Democracy, Efficiency, Due Process of Law""; ""Healthy People: Three Decades of National Health""; ""Regional Indicators and Fund Allocation"" ""International Benchmarking as a Tool for Regional Policy Making: Experiences and Challenges""""The Spatial Monitoring System of the German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) as a Tool for Political Counselling � From the Measurement of the Equality of Living Conditions to the Measurement of Sustainable Development""; ""Planning for the Future""; ""Societal Indicators and Government-wide Reporting in the Government of Canada""; ""Natural Capital: New Measures to Monitor the Economy�s Ecological Foundations""