Conférences et Séminaires

Measure for Measure - How Well Do We Measure Development?

In December 2010, the 8th AFD-EUDN Conference gathered over 1,000 participants from thirty countries. It returned to a core question: the measure of development and, thus, its very nature. Do we really know what we mean when we talk of “development" if we cannot agree on how to measure it?
Angus  Deaton  (University  of  Princeton),  Sabina  Alkire  (University  of  Oxford),  Claudia Senik, Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics), and Michel Aglietta (University of Paris X) each  gave  their  own  answers  by  offering  fresh  research  contributions. They  thereby pointed to a set of facts and questions that give a holistic and up-to-date vision of the issue  of  measurement  and  of  its  implications.  Francois  Bourguignon  (PSE),  Alemayehu Seyoum  Taffesse  (IFPRI  Addis  Ababa),  Pramila  Krishnan  (University  of  Cambridge)  and Frank  Lecocq  (AgroParisTech)  further  enriched  these  analyses  with  their  own  critical thinking.  The  quality  of  all  these  contributions  and  of  the  ensuing  debates  with  the public was widely applauded. This is well reflected in the present publication.
  

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