How crazy is that? That our measure of progress, our dominant measure of progress in society, is measuring everything except that which makes life worthwhile?

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C. Income measures

Measurement and criteria for evaluation

It's all very one dimensional.

It is an efficiency measure.

(c) Adopt performance measures for countries

Evolve standards of measuring efficiency in procurement

Success and progress must be judged against a realistic standard.

reference base and yardstick) and Issue 6 (Avoiding setting

Developing accurate workload measures specific to the full range of work undertaken

Matter of fact, as far as concerns go these days, it's about that size.

UNFPA should develop more accurate workload measures, specific to the full range of work undertaken, to ensure that General Service staff numbers are commensurate with need, and establish workload benchmarks and measures to determine more accurately the number of Professional staff needed (para. 9 (i) and (j)).

She was convinced that effective implementation of the due diligence standard required measurable indicators, time bound targets and disaggregated data to measure compliance.

(Need for a common reference base and yardstick) and Issue 6 (Avoiding setting standards

Iraq contends that there is no evidence that the smoke plume from the oil well fires in Kuwait reached Syria, and states that Syria has not provided any information about the alleged depositions of pollutants from the smoke plume in its territory.

They considered that the number of posts reported should not be considered an indicator of how well the standard was used.

Consideration and evaluation of benchmarks and indicators used to measure progress

(cont.) Measures taken or planned within the framework of national action programmes,

His delegation also agreed that the intention of States parties was an important criterion in determining whether a treaty should be terminated or suspended at the outbreak of an armed conflict.

An annual review meeting of stakeholders will measure project achievements against benchmarks and success criteria.

At the end of the day the appropriate criterion is the intention of the parties.

(a) Intersessional departures for 2005 and related matters

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

We concur with the recommendation and will continue with the further development of appropriate measures.

The ultimate criterion of its success will be the extent to which remote sensing will have contributed to the quality of life on Earth.

Time bound and measurable goals of the Programme of Action for the least developed countries not only provide benchmarks for measuring progress, they also serve as an effective means for planning, policymaking, institutional reform and resource mobilization.

Hence the matrix presents an immediate standard that requires mines in unmarked areas to achieve this minimum standard now and preferably a higher standard over time.

Final Amount

The mandates would then become a reference point for structuring the objectives over the short, medium and long term.

The other point that's worth noticing is how one dimensional this projection is.

D. Criteria for measuring progress in the realization of the human right to adequate housing.

And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities designed the system in their image.

Indicators look beyond the mere quantity of the activities and outputs of the projects and attempt to measure their impact.

Equally important measures of success will be improved intergovernmental capacity to cooperate within and across borders to identify, investigate, prosecute and bring to sentence those who violate drug control laws, as well as an increase in the number of cases resulting in the definitive forfeiture of the proceeds of criminal activities.

Somebody's got to give me a policy, some kind of yardstick.

Staffing efficiency is only one measure of the cost efficiency of procurement performance.

5. Requests the Secretary General, in the context of his next report on procurement reform, to evolve and provide the standards for measuring efficiency of procurement, taking into account the optimal duration of the procurement decision making process, the total workload in the Procurement Division and the cost efficiency of procurement, against which the performance should be measured

The Committee requests that a uniform standard for measuring recruitment time lines be applied throughout the Secretariat.

There are no specifications as to the criteria by which objectivity is to be measured.

Each of these in turn is measured by a number of indicators that the donor nation finds are in accord with its values and principles.

Fate steps in And sees you through

I don't think that whether or not you're getting a compliment should be the test of something's value, but I think in the case of a fashion item, an article of clothing, that's a reasonable benchmark.

In our mind, the relevant metric is student to valuable human time with the teacher ratio.

And the humanities and arts programs in the universities, which by many measures, indeed are in decline.