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Launching the Social Progress Index

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date April 14, 2013
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“Visions without metrics are hallucinations”, said one speaker at this year’s Skoll World Forum, which hosted the launch of the beta version of the Social Progress Index on April 11th. The importance of rigorously measuring social impact is one of the key themes of our writing about philanthrocapitalism. That is why we have been enthusiastic supporters […]

Tags Harvard Business School, Human Development Index, Michael E Porter, MIT, Skoll World Forum, social progress, Social Progress Imperative, Social Progress Index, World Economic Forum

Remeasuring Poverty

Post author By Philanthrocapitalism
Post date July 26, 2010

Talking about the number of people living on or below a “dollar a day” is a simple, effective way of telling the story of progress (or the lack of it) in reducing global poverty. But focusing on income alone has obvious limitations as a measure of extreme poverty. These have been highlighted by the launch […]

Tags Africa, Ethiopia, Human Development Index, Human Development Report, India, Millennium Development Goals, Niger, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Poverty, Tanzania, UNDP