Download - Global Development Indicators
"Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to
produce in our lives."
- Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, 2011
Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson I will…
Evaluate the reliability of the data, and the pattern produced, by an evolving
range of development measures
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What was the 1950s context for the first, second and third worlds?
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What measures informed
the brandt line?
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What evidence does Hans Rosling use to argue that countries are now part of an economic continuum ?
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How does the 2010’s Human Development Index average of life expectancy, years of schooling and income make it a more accurate measure?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
equality of gender access?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
equality of gender access?
qualifications achieved?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
equality of gender access?
qualifications achieved?
university graduates?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
equality of gender access?
qualifications achieved?
university graduates?
curriculum content?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
equality of gender access?
qualifications achieved?
university graduates?
curriculum content?
availability of resources?
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Does years of schooling
make any account for
teaching quality?
literacy outcomes?
equality of gender access?
qualifications achieved?
university graduates?
curriculum content?
availability of resources?
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This map shows life expectancy for
males at birth by local authority district
There’s a 9.3 year difference between
the highest and lowest life expectancy
How can a national average
account for regional variation
in poorer nations?
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How would natural disasters
like the Haitian earthquake
influence life expectancy?
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What would be the challenges of measuring life expectancy in rural India?
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How does all of this influence the reliability and validity of the Human Development Index?
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The Gender Empowerment Index is
based on based on relative income
and access to professional and
parliamentary positions
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The Gender Empowerment Index is
based on based on relative income
and access to professional and
parliamentary positions
Why are there so many data gaps?
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The Gender Empowerment Index is
based on based on relative income
and access to professional and
parliamentary positions
Is it exclusively focussed on
women in elite positions?
Why are there so many data gaps?
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The Gender Empowerment Index is
based on based on relative income
and access to professional and
parliamentary positions
Is it exclusively focussed on
women in elite positions?
Why are there so many data gaps?
“There is no silver bullet to change the world, but educating girls is like silver buckshot”
- Nicholas D Kristoff, columnist at the New York Times, 2013
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
Years of Schooling?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
Years of Schooling?
Income disparities?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
Years of Schooling?
Income disparities?
Passport ownership?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
Years of Schooling?
Income disparities?
Passport ownership?
Right to divorce?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
Years of Schooling?
Income disparities?
Passport ownership?
Right to divorce?
Domestic violence?
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What would you measure to
assess and compare global
gender equality?
Forced Marriages?
Right to Abortion?
Years of Schooling?
Income disparities?
Passport ownership?
Right to divorce?
Domestic violence?
Right to vote?
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"In many countries, women own nothing, inherit nothing and earn nothing. Three out of four of the poorest billion people of the world are women."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland, 2006
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The Gini Coefficient
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The Gini CoefficientThe Gini Coefficient
measures the equality of distribution
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The Gini CoefficientThe Gini Coefficient
measures the equality of distribution
The Gini Coefficient of 0 means total
equality, everyone paid the same
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The Gini CoefficientThe Gini Coefficient
measures the equality of distribution
The Gini Coefficient of 0 means total
equality, everyone paid the same
The Gini Coefficient of 1 means total
inequality, maximum divide between the rich and the poor
Learning Objectives
Evaluate the reliability of the data, and the pattern produced, by an evolving
range of development measures
By the end of this lesson I can…
Further Research
Watch this videohttps://vimeo.com/16470233
Research how many of the measures we have analysed were developed by
Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq
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