Wohlstand neu denken und messen: Rethinking and measuring prosperity

Um die großen Herausforderungen zu meistern, vor denen Deutschland heute steht – vom Fachkräftemangel bis zum Klimawandel – sind konzertierte, transformative politische Anstrengungen notwendig, die auf kollektiven Werten auf- bauen und gesellschaftliche Ziele verfolgen. Die Steigerung von Wohlstand muss gerecht erfolgen und darf nicht auf Kos- ten des sozialen Zusammenhalts oder zukünftiger Generati- onen gehen. Dafür muss Wohlfahrt neu gedacht und gemes- sen werden. Produktivitätswachstum und materieller Gewinn, gemessen am BIP, sind wichtig, aber als zentrale Zielgrößen und Maßstab für gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt unzureichend. Gemessen werden sollten die Dinge, die wir tatsächlich wert- schätzen. Darunter fallen nicht nur wirtschaftliches Wohler- gehen und die Einkommensverteilung, sondern auch andere Dimensionen des Wohlstands, wie soziale Teilhabe, gesell- schaftlicher Zusammenhalt, persönliche Entscheidungsfrei- heit und Chancen sowie ökologische Nachhaltigkeit. Addressing the major challenges Germany and the world face today – from mitigating climate change to the shortage of skilled labor – will require concerted, transformative political effort that builds on collective values and pursues societal goals. Economic growth should be achieved in a sustainable and inclusive manner and not at the expense of social cohesion or future generations. To do this, we need to rethink prosperity and find new ways to measure it. Productivity growth and material gains, measured in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), are important, but insufficient as central targets and yardsticks for social progress. The things that we actually value should be measured. This includes not only economic well-being and income distribution, but also other dimensions of well-being, such as social participation, societal cohesion, personal empowerment and opportunity, as well as environmental sustainability. In this article, we discuss Germany’s strategy for measuring and improving multidimensional, sustainable prosperity, and propose ways to rethink and design new measures of economic and social prosperity that encompass not only material prosperity and economic output, but also the social and environmental dimensions of prosperity

Entrevista a Elina Scheja

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Special : multidimensional measures during the covid-19 pandemic

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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021: Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste and gender

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TThe ENCCA-WP7/EuroSarc/EEC/PROVABES/EURAMOS 3rd European Bone Sarcoma Networking Meeting/Joint Workshop of EU Bone Sarcoma Translational Research Networks; Vienna, Austria, September 24–25, 2015. Workshop Report

This report summarizes the results of the 3rd Joint ENCCA-WP7, EuroSarc, EEC, PROVABES, and EURAMOS European Bone Sarcoma Network Meeting, which was held at the Children's Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, Austria on September 24-25, 2015. The joint bone sarcoma network meetings bring together European bone sarcoma researchers to present and discuss current knowledge on bone sarcoma biology, genetics, immunology, as well as results from preclinical investigations and clinical trials, to generate novel hypotheses for collaborative biological and clinical investigations. The ultimate goal is to further improve therapy and outcome in patients with bone sarcomas

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Interview with Elina Scheja

Spanish version available in IDRC Digital LibraryThe Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) uses a multidimensional poverty approach for their work. Sida has been restructuring development financing in light of how COVID-19 impacts people living in poverty. In this interview, lead economist at Sida, Elina Scheja talks about the framework and the way it is operationalized in the field. The four dimensions of poverty that are defined (and monitored and assessed) are: resources; choice; power and voice; and human security. The framework embraces complexity, allowing theories of change to be developed in order to break siloed divisions and poverty traps