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C. Income measures

Measurement and criteria for evaluation

It's all very one dimensional.

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?

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,

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

(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 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.

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.

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.

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.

However, it has not yet been possible to devise a universally accepted measure for this capability.

Several countries referred to the magnitude of resources as one important criterion by which the United Nations system is judged.

Activity based costing standards could also provide good benchmarks to measure increases in efficiency.

A AC.241 58 Report on work being done on benchmarks and indicators to measure progress in the implementation of the Convention

One of the advantages of the Programme is that it sets forth a number of norms and principles that must become a benchmark for any undertaking in this area.

And we've know for a long time that this is not a good measure of the welfare of nations.

These generally take men as their yardstick, investing them with higher status than women.

And this is a measure of how much well being we get for our planetary resource use.

(i) The tabular information that reviews benchmarks and indicators utilized to measure progress and an assessment thereof.