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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

Firmly believes that in developing human rights indicators of development, it is important to continuously question the validity and relevance of the indicators that emerge and that there should be an ongoing process to evaluate the appropriateness of the indicators themselves and whether they are adequately measuring the true human rights impacts of the programmes concerned

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.

6 World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 online.

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).

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

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.

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

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

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.

(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.

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.

Reliable indicators are difficult to identify however, progress in human rights, including the right to development, is dependent to a large extent on the additional benefits that those developing countries that have integrated human rights effectively into their development process might then derive from international cooperation in trade, investment, debt relief and aid.

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

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

From the viewpoint of establishing the rights of women as an integral part of human rights, equality issues comprise the basis for devising international indicators to measure the level of a country's development and prosperity.

United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1997 Human Development to Eradicate Poverty, box 5.8

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.

Human rights indicators are important, but they need to be developed with an eye on measuring what is truly important from a human rights perspective.