6 World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 online.

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

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

Source Various IMF reports, World Bank development indicators and other financial sources.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sources OECD, statistical annex to 2004 Development Cooperation Report (net ODA receipts, ODA GNI) UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports of merchandise) World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (external debt, GDP).

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

Tax compliance indicators are under development.

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.

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

Source UNCTAD calculations based on ITU World Telecommunication Indicators

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

Bahá'í International Community, Valuing Spirituality in Development Initial Considerations Regarding the Creation of Spiritually Based Indicators for Development, a concept paper written for the World Faiths Development Dialogue, Lambeth Palace, London (London The Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1998).

Source UNCTAD calculations based on ITU World Telecommunication Indicators database, 2005.

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

UN Habitat has made a significant contribution to city statistics and slum estimations and there are ongoing discussions to strengthen the partnership between UN Habitat and the World Bank with respect to the World Development Indicators.

(iii) Development of measurable indicators corresponding to the High Commissioner's five commitments

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 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.

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.

The Forum welcomes the contributions of the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank to data collection and disaggregation projects and recommends that these processes develop indicators that are culturally sensitive to indigenous peoples.

The Forum welcomes the contributions of the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank to data collection and disaggregation projects and recommends that these processes develop indicators that are culturally sensitive to indigenous peoples.

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.

These indicators suggest gradual but clear gains in national capacities for routine immunization across the developing world.

Currently, information and communication technology indicators for the region as a whole are lower than world averages.

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

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