The Culture for Development Indicator Suite (CDIS) provides a timely response to these challenges, building on the current favourable political context, greater capacity for data collection, and the critical mass of field experiences from large-scale projects.

UNESCO: Culture for Development Indicators

UN's human development indicator (see map).

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But according to US government statistics, Afghanistan's dismal rate of infant mortality, a basic indicator of a country's development, has shown no sign of improvement.

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And I think that is the most significant development of the past 24 hours, in terms of an indicator of where this is headed.

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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, said Monday that their Composite Leading Indicator (CLI) inched up to 97.9 for India in November compared to 97.8 in October.

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