Ecco il testo della mia intervista a Enrico Giovannini, chief statistician dell’Ocse, pubblicata sul numero di giugno della rivista bimestrale EAST, Europe and Asia STrategies, che è pubblicata in italiano e in inglese. La ripropongo ora perché Giovannini ha appena annunciato sulla newsletter dell’Ocse la prossima conferenza internazionale di Istanbul, nel giugno 2007, dedicata (come…
The Report Going for Growth by Oecd, released on Tuesday 7th, includes a Chapter on “alternative measures of well being”. I am sorry that only a short summary of the report is freely available on line, with few references to this chapter, but I will try summarize
Is the Gdp (Gross domestic product) a correct way to measure the progress of a nation? The problem is well known to statisticians and economists, with controversies that you can read in wikipedia and in many papers. Even the United Nations through its agency Undp, has launched a few years ago a new indicator, the…