Fifth Meeting of Beyond GDP Sprint 2023

7:00 am - 7:10 am

Session 1| Opening, welcome remarks, and scene-setting

• Introductions and Welcomes (5 minutes)
• Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Director of United Nations Statistics Division
• Recap from Meeting 4 - 7 September 2023 on Mapping Domestic Wellbeing Dashboards, and Their Concepts and Content
• Presenter: Eleanor Rees, Principal Research Officer, UK Office for National Statistics (5 minutes)

7:10 am - 7:20 am

Session 2| Introducing the Session

• Chair: Tim Miller (UN DESA) and Ivo Havinga (independent expert)

Welcome to the "beyond averages" sprint. This session provides a brief introduction of the Sprint's scope and purpose in discovering synergies among the different distributional frameworks.

Building inclusive and sustainable societies requires statistical systems that move "beyond GDP" and in particular, move "beyond averages". The meeting on Mapping Distributional Frameworks seeks to discover the synergies among the different distributional frameworks used for measuring economic inequality by asking ourselves who are the users, what policy questions are addressed, and how policy applications like models and other techniques are supported. Moreover, we like to explore whether a consolidated description of the various distributional frameworks in a statistical manual is useful after determining the synergies between the different frameworks building on the well-established progress with the various distributional frameworks.

7:20 am - 7:40 am

Session 3| Inequality through the lens of National Transfer Accounts (NTA)

• Chair: Tim Miller (UN DESA)

This session overviews the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) and their life cycle disaggregation of income and time by age, gender and socio-economic status, its various policy uses, and its country implementation.

Building inclusive and sustainable societies requires statistical systems that move "beyond GDP" and in particular, move "beyond averages". The meeting on Mapping Distributional Frameworks seeks to discover the synergies among the different distributional frameworks used for measuring economic inequality by asking ourselves who are the users, what policy questions are addressed, and how policy applications like models and other techniques are supported. Moreover, we like to explore whether a consolidated description of the various distributional frameworks in a statistical manual is useful after determining the synergies between the different frameworks building on the well-established progress with the various distributional frameworks.

• Presenter: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences (15 minutes)
• Presentation: Inequality through the lens of National Transfer Accounts

Discussion (5 minutes)

7:40 am - 8:00 am

Session 4| Inequality through the lens of household distribution accounts in the System of National Accounts

• Chair: Ivo Havinga (independent expert)

This session provides an overview of the household distribution accounts for income, consumption, and wealth in the forthcoming update of the System of National Accounts, its various policy uses, and its country implementation.

• Presenter: Jorrit Zwijnenburg, OECD (15 minutes)
• Presentation: Inequality through lens of household distribution accounts in System of National Accounts

Discussion (5 minutes)

8:00 am - 8:20 am

Session 5| Inequality through the lens of the Distribution of National Accounts (DINA)

• Chair: Tim Miller, UN DESA

This session highlights the distribution of national accounts for income and wealth per adult and per capita developed by the World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics, its various policy uses, and its country implementation.

• Presenter: Lucas Chancel, Sciences Po (15 minutes)
• Presentation: Inequality through lens of household distribution accounts in System of National Accounts

Discussion (5 minutes)

8:20 am - 8:40 am

Session 6| Inequality through the lens of spatial disaggregation of the Human Development Index (HDI)

• Chair: Ivo Havinga, independent expert

This session highlights the spatial disaggregation of the Human Development Index (HDI) developed by the UNDP Human Development Report Office (HDRO), its various policy uses, and its country implementation.

• Presenter: Yanchun Zang, UNDP HDRO (15 minutes)
• Presentation: Inequality through the lens of spatial disaggregation of the Human Development Index

Discussion (5 minutes)

8:40 am - 9:20 am

Session 7| Panel discussion

• Chair: Tim Miller, UN DESA
• Panelists: Eduardo Rios-Neto, Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais
• B. Piedad Urdinola, Director General, DANE Colombia

• Presenter: Eduardo Rios-Neto, Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Presentation: Inequality through the lens of spatial disaggregation of the Human Development Index

Potential questions to be considered are:

• Going forward, what synergies do you see across the different frameworks?
• What is your recommendation for a specific next step to capitalize on these synergies? What's the "low-hanging fruit" ?
• Is a consolidated description of the various distributional frameworks useful?

9:20 am - 9:30 am

Session 8 | Summary by Ivo Havinga

9:30 am

Adjourn

Related Documentations

• ▪ Technical notes - Calculating the human development indices-graphical presentation
• ▪ Expert Group Report on the Measurement of Inequality and Redistribution
• ▪ Global High-resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-Learning
• ▪ Distributional National Accounts Guidelines
• ▪ All presentations
• ▪ Meeting Video