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Social-Progress-Index-2017-Executive-Summary.pdf
by MICHAEL E. PORTER AND SCOTT STERN with MICHAEL GREEN
Social progress is the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.
Characteristics of the Social Progress measures:
1. Exclusively social and environmental indicators: Our aim is to measure social progress directly, rather than utilize economic proxies or outcomes. By excluding economic indicators, we can, for the first time, rigorously and systematically analyze the relationship between economic development (measured for example by GDP per capita) and social development
2. Outcomes not inputs: Our purpose is to measure the outcomes that matter to the lives of real people, not the inputs. For example, we want to measure a country’s health and wellness achieved, not how much effort is expended nor how much the country spends on healthcare.
3. Holistic and relevant to all countries: We strive to create a holistic measure of social progress that encompasses the many aspects of the health of societies.
4. Actionable: The Social Progress Index aims to be a practical tool that will help leaders and practitioners in government, business, and civil society to implement policies and programs that will drive faster social progress. To achieve that goal, we measure outcomes in a granular way that focuses on specific areas that can be implemented directly.
The 2017 Social Progress Index is structured around 12 components and 50 distinct indicators. The framework not only provides an aggregate country score and ranking, but also allows benchmarking on specific areas of strength and weakness. Transparency of measurement based on a comprehensive framework allows changemakers to set strategic priorities, acting upon the most pressing issues in their societies.
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Social-Progress-Index-2017-Findings-Report
by MICHAEL E. PORTER AND SCOTT STERN with MICHAEL GREEN
Traditional measures of national income, such as GDP per capita, fail to capture the overall progress of societies.
The Social Progress Index rigorously measures country performance on a wide range of aspects of social and environmental performance, which are relevant for countries at all levels of economic development. It enables an assessment of not just absolute country performance but relative performance compared to a country’s economic peers.
Governments and businesses have the tools to track social and environmental performance rigorously, and make better public policy and investment choices.
TBP/TVIA observation: The weakness of the Social Progress Imperative initiative is that it assumes that measurement at the country level gives meaningful incentive to change behavior to achieve better outcomes. The broad concept is very good, but there needs to be complementary granular measurements (indicators) that can be used at specific places, in specific organizations and for individuals and families. This is not easy, but it is what is needed for fast progress.
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Metrics/SPI/Social-Progress-Index-2017-Findings-Report.pdf'
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Social-Progress-Index-2017-Methodology-Report
by SCOTT STERN, AMY WARES and TAMAR EPNER
Social Progress defined as the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.
Framework comprising three architectural components:
(l) Dimensions represent the broad conceptual categories that define social progress. The Index is calculated as the equally-weighted average of a country’s score on each of three dimensions.
(2) Within each dimension are components: four unique but related concepts that together make up each dimension. A country’s dimension score is calculated as the equally-weighted average of the four components in that dimension.
(3) Each component is composed of indicators that measure as many valid aspects of the component as possible. These indicators are aggregated using a weighted average, where the weights are determined by principal component analysis.
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