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
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"…..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
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17:00-18:30
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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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