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Social Watch developed the BCI as an instrument to monitor the evolution of basic indicators and make comparisons between and within countries. This is a summary-index that compares and classifies countries according to their progress in social development by evaluating their situation in terms of minimum basic capabilities – structural dimensions that represent the indispensable starting conditions to guarantee an adequate quality of life.
Basic Capabilities Index 2011
October 20, 2011

The boom and the busted A lost decade in the fight against poverty

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Basic Capabilities Index 2010 - SLOWING DOWN
October 20, 2010

Table of contents The current picture as shown by the BCI Economic growth alone does not reduce poverty The 2010 Basic Capabilities Index developed by Social Watch shows that in the last twenty years poverty...

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BASIC CAPABILITIES INDEX (BCI) 2009
October 20, 2009

The BCI uses an alternative methodology to register the progress – or lack of progress – towards compliance with the Millennium Development Goals. This index constitutes a new methodology that complements in numerous respects the...

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Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) 2008 - WAY TOO SLOW!
October 29, 2008

Table of contents The BASIC CAPABILITIES INDEX BCI 2008 country by country BCI 2008 evolution BCI evolution and projection BCI by region The MDGs, easier said than measured How is China really doing? Methodology (PDF)...

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SOCIAL WATCH

Social Watch was created in 1995 during the “Social Summit” (World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen) to create a civil society instrument to make governments accountable to their solemn commitments to eradicate poverty, achieve gender equity and reduce inequalities.
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