Migration Policy Indicators

Indicators for policy

Many energy related policies, such as procurement, labelling, voluntary agreements and minimum efficiency standards for appliances, are intended to take effect on the sub-sector or product level. Appropriate indicators are needed if policy makers are to monitor the effectiveness of these types of policies. This paper will take a pragmatic approach towards establishing product-level indicators, ...

Forecasts , Indicators , And Monetary Policy

Conducti ng monetary policy is a difficult business. It's easy enough to set a policy goal such as price stability or low and stable inflation , but because monetary policy affects the economy with a lag, achieving those goals requires an ability to peer into the future. A change in the money supply or interest rates today won't affect inflation for months, or even years, down the road. Consequ...

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Indicators to support innovation cluster policy

The elaboration of a conceptually grounded and easily replicable set of indicators for gauging the current state and future prospects for cluster development is an essential aid for both policy makers and cluster advocates. Many different methods and techniques for analyzing clusters have been proposed in the literature, but no standardized approach has emerged, and numerous challenges exist in...

Productive Capabilities Indicators for Industrial Policy Design

Acknowledgments This working paper has significantly benefitted from detailed comments and suggestions made The designations employed, descriptions and classifications of countries, and the presentation of the material in this report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) concerning t...