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Invitation to the Opening of the new UN premises in I-Tower

Inclusive and Sustainable Development in East and North-East Asia: Strengthening National Capacity to Produce and Use Statistical Information

20 September 2012 - 21 September 2012
Beijing, China

Organizers: United Nations ESCAP in cooperation with the National Bureau of Statistics, China

The main objectives of the Workshop are to further the discussions on the different aspects that make for a good life today and in the future in East and Northeast Asia and to exchange views and best practices on the development and use of new measures of well-being for effective and accountable policy making.

Programme

List of Participants

Summary of Workshop

List of Presentations

Session 1: Material conditions

• Naoto Yamauchi, Chair of the Commission on Well-being Studies, Japan and Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy
  - Are Japanese People Happy?: Measuring Well-being and Beyond
• Jiantuo Yu, Program Director, China Development Research Foundation
  - Multidimensional Poverty in China: Findings Based on CHNS
• Alexander Goncharov, Chief Expert, Foreign Statistics and International Cooperation Department, ROSSTAT
  - Integrated life conditions survey of of the population of Russia

Session 2: Quality of life

• Susumu Kuwahara, Well-Being Study Unit, Economic and Social Research Institute, Japan
  - Quality Of Life Survey in Japan
• Daria Popova, Leading Researcher, Independent Institute for Social Policy, Russia
  - Social and demographic challenges of sustainable development in Russia
• Wenmeng Feng, Program Officer, China Development Research Foundation
  - Constructing China's Livelihood Index: Efforts and Preliminary Findings
• Richard Easterlin and Robson Morgan, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
  - China' Life Satisfaction 1990-2010

Session 3: Sustainability and future challenges

• Liu Jian, Director, International Ecosystem Management Partnership, UNEP
  - Implementing Green Economy Policies through Ecosystem Management
• T. Dorj, Vice President, Mongolian Academy of Sciences
  - Indicators and economic incentives for sustainable development and green growth (development)
• Samir Wanmali, Senior Programme Advisor, World Food Programme, Asia Bureau
• Ha-Eun Seong, Geneva International Cooperation Office, Good Neighbors
  - NGO Challenges in Assessment Monitoring and Evaluation
• Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Director, UNESCAP Subregional Office for East and North-East Asia
  - Rio+20, Sustainability and Future Challenges

Session 4: Learning from good practices - disseminating and communicating statistics

• Liu Guoning, Deputy Director-General, Department of Comprehensive Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics, China
• Angela Hariche, Head of Unit, Global Well-being Networks, OECD
  - Good practices: communicating and disseminating statistics
• Takao Itou, Executive Statistician, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
  - The Open Data Strategy of Official Statistics in Japan
• Emanuele Baldacci, Director, ISTAT, Italy
  - Ex Pluribus Unum: From Fragmented Information to Story-Telling at Istat
• Marina Krasilnikova, Senior Expert, Levada Analytical Center
  - Public opinion instruments to measure well being
• E. Oyundari, Reporter, UB Post
  - Mongolia's UNESCAP Media Project for 2012: Using data and interviews for effective newspaper articles