"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?

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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

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Research how many of the measures we have analysed were developed by

Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq

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