AFD-EUDN 2010

8th Conference Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and European Development Research Network (EUDN)

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
How well do we Measure Development?

AFD and EUDN, the European Development Research Network, have been organizing annual conferences since 2003 on development related topics. The conferences are key events for promoting European research and attract a lot of people from the North and South.

1 December 2010, Paris
Conference Center Pierre Mendès-France
Ministère de l’Economie, de l’Industrie et de l’Emploi
139, rue de Bercy 75012 Paris

Economic growth is not necessarily development. GDP can grow in a country without noticeable improvement of poverty, health or education. Yet, development keeps being measured mostly by GDP growth and public attention keeps focusing on that sole statistic. But then, how should we measure development? Should we define a multiplicity of indicators? Should we try to integrate all the dimensions of development and define an aggregate indicator? The various aspects of development are nevertheless difficult to compare. Such are the questions that will be addressed by top international experts and a large audience in the next joint AFD/EUDN conference. Discussions will focus on approaches that can be taken as alternatives to, or complementary of traditional statistical measures to quantify economic and social progress and to design and monitor better development strategies.

 
With Dov ZERAH, François BOURGUIGNON, Pierre JACQUET

And with the participation of : Angus DEATON, Sabina ALKIRE, Alemayehu SEYOUM TAFFESSE, Kimseyinga SAVADOGO, Andrew CLARK and Claudia SENIK, Pramila KRISHNAN, Roger GUESNERIE, Michel AGLIETTA, Frank LECOCQ, Johachim VON BRAUN