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Quantifying
the World: UN Contributions to Statistics
Michael
Ward
An assessment of the UN's contribution
to international efforts to standardize national statistics and
stimulate their accurate collection, analysis, and dissemination.
This volume will include the following:
- An analysis of the UN's leadership in the
international effort to standardize statistics and stimulate
their collection, analysis, and publication for pioneering
work on GNP and the standard system of national accounts (SNA),
Richard Stone, a key adviser, received a Nobel Prize.
- Work more influential than often realized
because both popular and professional perceptions of progress
and problems are influenced by available data. (For
instance, are people better off than 25 years ago, are the
gaps between countries widening or narrowing, how unequal
are economic relations between countries?)
- An assessment of 50 years of the UN's efforts
and current needs to better understand and quantify national
and global challenges in the next century.
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