Remarkably, the Human Development Index is higher than indicators on economic growth.

The 2004 Human Development Report also contained no female employment indicators for Gabon.

Indeed, their social and human development indicators are worse than in Sub Saharan Africa.

However, conditional cash transfer programs have been quite successful in improving various human development indicators.

Both groups of countries achieved great advances in education, health, poverty reduction, and other human development indicators.

In developing human rights indicators to measure progress in development, it is important that we continuously question the validity and relevance of the indicators that emerge. We must ask ourselves, Are these right indicators?

There is a need to find genuine, effective indicators of true development progress from a human rights perspective.

Among others, closer links should be fostered between the accounts and indicators, including links with sustainable development indicators, Millennium Development Goals indicators and indicators used in poverty reduction strategy papers.

The measures and indicators used to assess poverty and human development, such as the Gross National Product and the Human Development Index, largely determine what is valued and, as such, shape development policy and priorities.

Tax compliance indicators are under development.

Development of Thai women's status indicators.

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

One member also recommended the use of human rights indicators, in particular impact indicators, and statistics.

Up to a threshold of around 100 kwh per capita per day, energy consumption and human development indicators go hand in hand.

6 World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 online.

The Bangladesh MDG Progress Report 2005, published jointly by our Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), recognizes that we have made impressive progress on the key human development indicators, which was also reflected in the 2004 UNDP Human Development Report.

Meanwhile, universal social programs have improved human welfare much more than targeted and conditional programs. However, conditional cash transfer programs have been quite successful in improving various human development indicators.

Indeed, there are several grim indicators of this development.

Group of Friends of the Chair on development indicators

Development of clear and transparent indicators, especially for ODA.

Expand development indicators to assess ethical and moral capacities

In 2004, it ranked 169th out of 177 countries in terms of its level of human development, with human development indices of 0.363 in 2001 and 0.361 in 2002 and some of the lowest social indicators in the world.

Indigenous peoples show high degrees of marginalization and low indicators of social, economic and human development (according to definitions and criteria set by multilateral bodies).

Whereas socioeconomic development monitoring had focused on human outcomes social and economic conditions human rights monitoring also required considering several actors, process as well as outcome indicators, and benchmarking to measure progressive realization.

The summary indicators provided below suggest the kinds of human development problems with which Central Africa, particularly its primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, has to contend.

This will also help to expand investment and speed the growth of incomes, as well as to improve the country's human development indicators in various fields.

The Sub Commission should determine whether any comprehensive collection of the ongoing work on indicators, especially human rights indicators, is being made.

Prior to the explosion, average annual GDP growth in the region had been humming along at 4.6 for a decade, with strong improvement in human development indicators.

E. Accuracy of data on the Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database

Based on data from the World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005.

Selected development indicators for landlocked developing countries for last year available

(iii) Development of measurable indicators corresponding to the High Commissioner's five commitments

Source Various IMF reports, World Bank development indicators and other financial sources.

Report of the Friends of the Chair on Millennium Development Goals indicators

ECLAC, for example, has developed additional Millennium Development Goal targets and indicators.

One solution is to choose indicators applied in the compiling of the Human Development Index that are suitable for youth issues and use them in analysing data for monitoring.

Both groups of countries achieved great advances in education, health, poverty reduction, and other human development indicators. None of them used randomized control experiments to design their social or economic programs.

This is also one of the indicators monitored through the human resources action plan of the Office of Human Resources Management.

Among other activities, it contributed to an Arab regional workshop on national sustainable development strategies and indicators of sustainable development.

It coordinates the compilation and analysis of the indicators, reviewing methodologies and supporting countries in the collection, analysis and reporting of data for Millennium Development Goal indicators.

Basic indicators of economic and social development show SSA lagging far behind other developing areas.

Review of the data for Cuba and Mexico in the Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database

The Urban Indicators Programme established contacts with experts in cities to provide indicators on the Habitat Agenda themes of shelter, governance, social and economic development and the environment.

Indicators include the existence of appropriate institutional mechanisms, provision of sufficient human resources and budget allocations.

However, studies presented at the meeting suggested a positive relationship between development and trade facilitation indicators.