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Sharpe, Andrew; Kessler, Anke; Thunert, Martin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

A strong case can be made that the quality of governance provided by the government of Canada deteriorated somewhat from May 2011 to May 2013. While the government has constructed high-quality governance structures and implemented effective policies in many areas over many decades, the actions...

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A Survey of Indicators of Economic and Social Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 1999

In recent years, interest in aggregate or composite indicators of economic and social well-being at the community … attempted to develop social indicators to monitor trends in the welfare of their citizens. The objective of this paper is to … provide a survey of the major indicators of economic and social well-being that have been developed at the national and …

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Literature Review of Frameworks for Macro-indicators

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

There has been an explosion of interest in recent years in Canada and other countries in macro-indicators and composite … indexes of economic and social well-being. This reflects growing recognition of the important role macro-indicators can play … on well-being. This report provides a literature review of conceptual/operational frameworks for the development of macro-indicators …

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Measuring the Impact of Research on Well-being: A Survey of Indicators of Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew; Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

The main objective of this report is to conduct a survey and assessment of various indicators used by organizations … subjective indicators or measures. The report is divided into five major parts. The first part provides a brief overview of … Canada's research effort. The second part, by far the longest section, surveys a large number of sets of indicators and …

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Social Capital, the Economy and Well-being

Helliwell, John - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, John Helliwell sets the scene for many of the papers that follow by providing an up-to-date and lucid survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being. This latter term is closely related to the concept of social...

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Needs and Wants: What is Social Progress and How Should it be Measured

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg has the daunting task of examining the conceptual issues involved in defining and measuring social progress. As he highlights in his introduction, while much had been made of the fact that Canada in 2000 earned first place in the United Nations' Human Development...

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Indicators of Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries

Sharpe, Andrew; Guibaud, Olivier - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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Economic Security in Nova Scotia

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2008

The report uses an aggregate index, based on security from the economic risks imposed by four key factors …

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