OECD World Forum on
Statistics, Knowledge and Policy
Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making
16 - 19 October 2012 New Delhi,
India
OECD Jointly organised with the
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
Website:
“…..Building on the Better Life
Intiative, the main objectives of the Forum are to further the discussions on
the different aspects that make for a good life today and in the future in
different countries of the world and to promote the development and use of new
measures of well-being for effective and accountable policy-making. Thus, an
important expected outcome of the Forum is to contribute to the post-2015
development agenda.
Program
Day 1
Tuesday
16 October 2012
INAUGURAL
SESSION
09:30-11:00
Lighting of lamp
Sarswati Vandana
Welcome speech: T. C. A. Anant (Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation)
Opening address on behalf of the
Government of India: Manmohan
Singh (Prime Minister, India)
Opening address on behalf of the
OECD: Angel Gurría (Secretary-General, OECD)
Keynote address: Shri Srikant Kumar Jena (Honourable Minister, Ministry of Statistics and
Programme Implementation)
INTRODUCTORY
SESSION
11:00-11:40
Setting the scene:
The importance
of measuring well-being and happiness for effective policy making
Chair: S.M. Krishna tbc (Minister of External Affairs, India)
Keynote addresses:
David
Cameron tbc (Prime Minister, UK)
12:00-12:15
REFLECTIVE
SESSION
Chair: Martine Durand (Chief
Statistician, OECD)
Ki
Jong Woo (Commissioner,
Statistics Korea, Korea)
Algirdas
Šemeta tbc (EU
Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud)
12:15-13:15
Conclusions from the Regional
Conferences in Mexico, Japan, Morocco
and France:
A look back at
the four regional conferences in the shaping of this event, focusing on
their main messages, similarities and differences
Eduardo
Sojo President
(Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, Mexico);
Motohisa Furukawa (Minister
for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan); Ahmed
Lahlimi Alami (High Commissioner of Planning,
Morocco); Enrico Giovannini (President, National
Institute for Statistics,
Italy)
THEME
1: MATERIAL CONDITIONS
13:15-13:45
Part 1 in plenary
Chair: Vijay Kelkar tbc (Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India)
Overview address: Angus Deaton (Princeton
University, USA)
seminar on Global Well-Being
Networks/Wikiprogress: Angela
Hariche (OECD)
seminar on World Happiness
Report: John
Helliwell (University of British Colombia, Canada)
seminar on Green Growth: Simon Upton (OECD)
Part 2 in
parallel
Reducing inequalities and poverty
The role of assets and their
distribution
Business, jobs and well-being
Improving housing and urban
infrastructure
Day
2
Wednesday
17 October 2012
09:00-09:20
Keynote speech:
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University, USA)
ROUND
TABLE 1: MEASURING WELL-BEING INITIATIVES IN INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
09:20-10:40
Chair: Jil Matheson (Chair of OECD CSTAT and
National Statistician, UK)
Brian
Pink (Australian
Statistician, Australia); Jiantang Ma (Commissioner,
NBS, China); Karma Tshiteem (GNH
Commission Secretary, Bhutan); Roy
Romanow (Canadian Index of Wellbeing, Canada); Enrico Giovannini (President, National
Institute for Statistics, Italy); Romulo
Virola (former Chief Statistician, Philippines); Gerardo Leyva Deputy Director General
of Research (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, Mexico);
General discussion; Conclusions by Chair
THEME 2: QUALITY
OF LIFE
10:40-11:10
Part 1 in plenary
Chair: Shailaja Chandra (former Secretary Government of India and Chief Secretary, Delhi, India)
Overview address:
Richard
Layard (London School
of Economics, UK)
Parallel panel on
Improving health conditions
Investing in education and skills
Increasing people’s subjective
well-being
Building effective and responsive
institutions
Lunchtime seminar on India’s work on Social Institutions and
Gender Index: India (Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation)
Lunchtime seminar on Open data
for development: Shaida Badiee and
Neil Fantom (World Bank)
16:20-16:40
Keynote speech:
Laura
Chinchilla Miranda tbc (President, Costa Rica)
16:40-17:00
Keynote speech:
Jeffrey
Sachs (Director of
the Earth Institute, Columbia University, Special Advisor to UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, USA)
ROUND
TABLE 2: BEYOND 2015 - THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT GOALS
17:00-18:30
Chair: Noeleen
Heyzer (Executive
Secretary, UN-ESCAP)
Lyonpo
Yeshey Zimba (Minister of
Works and Human Settlement); Moubarack Lô
(Minister Adviser to the President, Senegal); Andrew Mitchell tbc (Secretary of State
for International Development, UK); Brian
Atwood (OECD DAC Chair); Ricardo
Paes de Barros tbc (Ricardo
Paes de Barro tbc (Secretary of the Office of Strategic Action
from the Secretariat for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of Republic of
Brazil); Otaviano Canuto (World
Bank Vice President Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM)
Network); Paul Cheung (Director,
United Nations Statistics Division); Khalid
Malik (Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP);
General discussion; Conclusions by Chair
Day
3
Thursday
18 October 2012
09:00-09:40
Keynote speeches:
India
Thabo
Mbeki tbc (former
President, South Africa)
THEME
3: GENDER, LIFE COURSE, AND SOCIETAL GROUPS
09:40-10:10
Part 1 in plenary
Chair: Martin Hirsch (President, Agence du service civique, France)
Overview address:
Michelle
Bachelet tbc (Executive
Director, UN Women)
Parallel panels on:
Empowering women
Nurturing children
Caring for the elderly
Recognising societal groups and
minority rights
seminar on OECD Better Life Initiative: Romina Boarini and Catherine
Candea (OECD)
seminar on New economic
approaches: Charles
Seaford (New Economics Foundation, UK)
Keynote speech:
Pali
Lehohla (Chief
Statistician, South
Africa)
ROUND TABLE 3:
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, ELECTED ASSEMBLIES, CIVIL SOCIETY
15:10-16:40
Chair: Anthony Gooch (OECD)
Overview address:
Chandran
Nair (Global
Institute for Tomorrow, Hong-Kong)
17:00-18:30
Chair: Antony Gooch (OECD)
Serge
Allegrezza,
(Vice-President, International Association of Economic and Social Councils
and Similar Institutions); Charles
Seaford (New Economics Foundation, UK); Mike Salvaris (GPRNet, Australia); Anders Wijkman (Member of European
Parliament); Denise Lievesley (European
Statistics Advisory Committee); Robert
Bissio tbc (Executive director of the Instituto del Tercer
Mundo); Luis Ubiñas tbc (President
of the Ford Foundation); General discussion; Conclusions by Chair
Day
4
Friday
19 October 2012
09:00-09:40
Keynote speech:
Gilad
Erdan tbc (Minister of
Environmental Protection, Israel)
THEME
4: SUSTAINABILITY
09:40-10:10
Part 1 in plenary
Chair: Walter Radermacher (Director General, Eurostat)
Overview address:
Johan
Rockstrom tbc (Stockholm
Environment Institute, Sweden)
Parallel panels on
Achieving environmental
sustainability
Lowering vulnerability to
disasters and conflicts
Strengthening economic
sustainability
Social cohesion
seminar on Open data for a global
research agenda – what needs to be done?: Stefan Michalowski (Global Science Forum, OECD)
ROUND TABLE 4:
WELL-BEING - INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND REGIONAL MODELS FOR POLICY MAKING
15:30-16:50
Chair: Pronab Sen (Planning Ministry, Government of India)
Mauricio
Santamaría tbc (Current
Director of National Planning, Colombia); Gilad
Erdan tbc (Minister of Environmental Protection, Israel); Soledad Arellano tbc (Vice-Minister of
Social Development, Chile); David Halpern
tbc (Prime Minister’s Office, UK); Jean-Paul Fitoussi (Institut d'études politiques de Paris,
France); Dimitri Sanga (Director,
Africa Centre for Statistics, UNECA); Elżbieta
Bieńkowska tbc (Polish Minister of Regional Development);
General discussion; Conclusions by Chair
16:50-17:20
Conference Conclusions: Yves Leterme (OECD Deputy Secretary-General)
Distilling
overall conclusions from the Conference, promoting the global well-being
agenda and the use of new measures for effective and accountable policy-
making
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