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.

Tax compliance indicators are under development.

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

6 World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 online.

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

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

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

(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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Guidelines on the development and use of core environmental indicators for West Asia are also available.

Although the indicators for monitoring the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals reveal a positive trend, progress has been uneven from the baseline year to the most recent indicators available.

Three atlases (Bolivia, Panama and Ecuador) were published, demonstrating significant gaps between indigenous and non indigenous populations in socio demographic indicators, including several indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals.

(f) Develop effective monitoring mechanisms, including through the collection, compilation and use of sex disaggregated data and gender statistics, and the development and use of appropriate indicators, including process indicators

Source Computations by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, based on World Bank, Global Development Finance and World Development Indicators, online data.

In the specific context of capacity building, indicators to map the progress of staff development are defined.

Summary results of the review of the data for Finland in the Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database

Summary results of the review of the data for Canada in the Millennium Development Goal Indicators Database

Using the Gender Development Index (GDI), which combines life expectancy, educational achievements and standard of living indicators, the report shows that Afghan women have one of the lowest GDI indicators in the world.

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

The development of guidelines and codes of conduct would set clear expectations and performance indicators for the industry.

Sources World Bank, World Bank Development Indicators 2005 and Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook 2005 (pipelines and waterways).

Sources UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports and imports of merchandise) and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (GDP).

There are ongoing discussions between UN Habitat and the World Bank on expanding their existing partnership to include urban and housing indicators collected by UN Habitat in World Development Indicators, published by the World Bank.

(a) Define the modalities of a report on the ability of countries to produce individual indicators, not imputations by international agencies, and on how metadata should be presented to accompany indicators on all Millennium Development Goals

(b) Under Indicators of achievement , paragraph (c), after the phrase sustainable development , insert the phrase , including the World Solar Programme .

CPF members have played an active role in supporting these processes and the development of criteria and indicators within countries.

This work laid the groundwork for the development of a matrix of indicators to help Governments to formulate better strategies.

Sources World Bank, World Bank Development Indicators 2005 (GDP per capita) and UNCTAD, UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (inward FDI).

An observer for a State stressed the importance of introducing an ethnical perspective in plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and of elaborating participation indicators and indicators of results to measure the impact of national programmes.

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They had a key role in development of additional indicators to follow progress in B H context within the Objective 3.

The Subcommittee stressed the need to develop ICT indicators to monitor progress towards the information society and the Millennium Development Goals.

The Regional Director said that UNICEF had similar concerns on the development indicators, particularly the worsening nutritional situation in the south.