why we need a different approach to measuring socio-economic progress diane coyle university of...
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Why We Need a Different Approach to Measuring Socio-Economic Progress
Diane CoyleUniversity of Manchester
17 February 2015
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What are we trying to measure?
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Progress?
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GDP – the hockey stick of history
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What is ‘the economy’?
• What can be taxed to pay for wars?
• What can be traded to increase national wealth?
• Agriculture; manufacturing
• How much spare capacity? GDP=C+I+G+(X-M)
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Known problems with GDP
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Government
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The informal economy
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Finance
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The welfare wedge
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The intangibles wedge
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Sustainability
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Solutions?
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Alternatives to GDP: ‘happiness’
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Social Progress Indicator - Ireland
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Social Progress Indicator - UK
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Dashboards
OECD commentary• In Ireland, the average household net-adjusted
disposable income per capita is 23 721 USD a year, less than the OECD average of 23 938 USD a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest – the top 20% of the population earn more than five times as much as the bottom 20%
• In Ireland, 73% of adults aged 25-64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, close to the OECD average of 75%. In contrast to the overall OECD experience, more women have graduated high school than men, as 70% of men have successfully completed high-school compared with 76% of women. In terms of the quality of its education system, the average student scored 516 in reading literacy, maths and science in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), above the OECD average of 497. On average in Ireland, girls outperformed boys by 3 points, less than the average OECD gap of 8 points.
Some BLI components
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Comprehensive wealth
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Comprehensive wealth comparisons2005 US$
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What should we measure, and why?
Three different aims: three kinds of measurement
• Economic activityGDP?
• Social welfareDashboards?
• SustainabilityAssets – change in comprehensive wealth
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