There have been significant efforts at the international, regional and national levels to define, develop and use indicators to measure sustainability. Most significant of these was the United Nations ...

Composite indicators have become an indispensable tool to synthesise multifaceted data into a single, interpretable metric for assessing human development. The construction of these indicators ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday asked African leaders to make a greater effort to achieve more significant improvements on the continent’s human development indicators. The president spoke at an ...

There has been global pressure on African nations, including Nigeria, to urgently align maternal and newborn healthcare priorities with core development indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ...

(a) Name: Representation of Major Groups in National Councils for Sustainable Development. (b) Brief Definition: The composition of national stakeholders in sustainable development, including groups ...

Development Indicators show an average figure for the whole country and often hide differences in the standard of living within a country. Revise development indicators and differences with this ...

45 experts were trained on culture’s enabling contribution to the national and local implementation of the Goals and Targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during a 4-day online ...

Timely, accurate and robust data are critical to analyzing poverty and inequality within and across countries, and thereby ensuring development actions are targeted and effective in supporting the ...

Umar Serajuddin is a Manager at the World Bank’s Development Data Group, in charge of its Indicators and Data Services unit. He leads the Bank’s Open Data initiative and oversees the management of the ...