Transcript New indicators: measuring progress of cohesion policy

New indicators: measuring
progress of cohesion policy
Committee of the Regions
The use of new regional and
local indicators
The experience of Umbria Region
“If you can not measures it, you can not improve it”
(Lord Kelvin)
Summary
The use of indicators "beyond GDP" at regional level:
potentials and problems
The RUICS (Regione Umbria innovation & competitveness
scoreboard)
Multidimensional Indicator
of innovation, development and social cohesion
The use of new regional
and local indicators
potentials and problems
“GDP or not GDP: that is the question!”
Questions to solve:
• synthetic index (Gdp) VERSUS multidimensionality of the “wellbeing”
• "Objectives" phenomena, "perceptions“ measuring. Absolute values
and/or percentage changes. Shared methods?
• How to aggregate the indicators? (normalization, weight of the key
indicators, etc. ..)
• Availability of large significant and durable time series,
(stronger problems for regional data)
• Entrust the choice (implicit) of the priorities to the technicians? Are
better explicit policy objectives? Who should decide?
RUICS: methodology
Regione Umbria innovation & competitiveness
RUICS 2009
scoreboard
28 key indicators, 5 thematic areas
Synthetic indexes
RUIS
RUICS
RUMES
Thematic areas
N° Key indicators
Human resources
5
Knowledge creation
6
Financial and product innovations,
and market structure
6
Opening to the outside
(internationalization)
5
Economic Growth
6
Three synthetic indicators: RUIS (innovation), RUMES
(competitiveness) and RUICS (synthesis)
RUICS: methodology
RUICS 2009
Indicators of "input" (effort to improve or maintain the competitive
capacity)
Indicators of output (results)
Rating of the evolution over time of all 28 key indicators and of the 3
synthetic indexes, for all Italian regions
Is Umbria positioned better or worse than other regions?
Has Umbria improved or worsened over the years?
RUICS: Main Results
RUICS 2009
RUICS 2009
Lazio
0,68
Lombardia
0,61
Emilia Rom.
0,55
Piemonte
0,52
Friuli V.G.
0,51
Liguria
Umbria ranks 10th ...
Following all the centrenorth regions except Marche
and Valle d'Aosta
0,49
Veneto
0,46
Toscana
0,45
Trentino-AA
0,43
Umbria
0,41
Marche
0,40
Abruzzo
RUICS 2005
0,40
Campania
RUICS 2006
0,35
Sardegna
RUICS 2008
0,31
Valle D’Aosta
RUICS 2009
0,30
Molise
0,28
Sicilia
0,27
Basilicata
0,24
Puglia
0,23
Calabria
0,21
0,00
0,10
0,20
0,30
0,40
0,50
0,60
0,70
0,80
Umbria improves (not
much) since the early
years ...
but performs much
better than last year
RUICS: Main Results
RUICS 2009
RUICS: Main Results
RUICS 2009
Who goes up and who goes down…
The North is further
ahead ...
but it slows
The South is far behind...
but it recovers
Umbria is in the
middle...
but it performs better
than the average
The multi-dimensional indicator
Introduction and methodology
GDP measures everything, except that which
makes life worthwhile
(Robert Kennedy)
From Ruics to the multidimensional indicator:
same methodology, same representation modality but ...
expansion of under investigation areas.
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Scientific analysis, but above all a political choice:
the dashboard of strategic legislative program
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Methodology
first of all identification of a large number of indicators with certain
characteristics (approximately 100), among which were selected a
large number of key indicators (47), divided into 7 thematic areas.
The multi-dimensional indicator
Methodology
Thematic areas - Synthetic Indexes
Economic and productive system
Labour market
Environment
Social Cohesion and Security
Education and Training
Innovation and research
Health and welfare
N. Key indicators
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Starting position of Umbria
Evolution over time of key indicators and synthetic indexes
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Main results
Indicatore sintetico delle 7 aree
Trentino A. A.
0,65
Emilia Rom.
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0,63
Lombardia
0,61
Veneto
0,61
Friuli V. G.
0,60
Liguria
0,59
Lazio
0,59
Toscana
0,57
Umbria
0,56
Piemonte
0,55
Marche
0,54
Valle d'Aosta
0,49
ITALIA
0,49
Abruzzo
0,45
Basilicata
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2009
Umbria in 9th place in
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multidimensional
innovation,
development and social
cohesion...
0,41
Molise
....Remaining in the same
position in 2008
0,39
Sardegna
0,32
Calabria
0,31
Campania
0,28
Puglia
0,27
Sicilia
0,24
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0,40
0,60
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Umbria
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Economic and production system
12
Labour market
11
Environment
14
Social cohesion and security
3
Education and training
3
Innovation and Research
9
Health and welfare
7
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Evolution over
time
Rating
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Main Results
Area Mercato del lavoro
Trentino A. A.
0,99
Emilia Rom.
0,90
Valle d'Aosta
0,88
Veneto
0,85
Lombardia
0,83
Friuli V. G.
0,79
Toscana
0,79
Liguria
0,78
Marche
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0,72
ITALIA
0,58
Lazio
2008
0,55
Abruzzo
2009
0,54
Molise
0,45
Basilicata
0,25
Calabria
0,20
Sardegna
0,19
Puglia
0,17
Sicilia
0,09
Campania
0,06
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In 2009 Umbria is at 11th
place, losing three
positions compared to
2008
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Umbria
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Labour market
0,75
Piemonte
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1,50
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Main Results
Area Coesione sociale e sicurezza
Emilia Rom.
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Friuli V. G.
0,71
Umbria
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0,70
Valle d'Aosta
0,64
Marche
0,62
Veneto
0,58
Toscana
0,57
Trentino A. A.
0,56
Liguria
0,55
Lombardia
0,54
Social cohesion and security
Basilicata
0,51
Molise
0,50
2008
Abruzzo
0,50
2009
Piemonte
0,48
Lazio
0,48
ITALIA
0,48
Sardegna
In 2009 Umbria is at 3rd place,
improving two positions
compared to 2008
0,44
Puglia
0,37
Calabria
0,35
Sicilia
0,29
Campania
0,09
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0,60
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Umbria Experience
Lessons to be learned and conclusions
“A joke is a very serious thing”
(Winston Churchill)
Assessing to learn, knowing to decide
Accountability, Transparency, democracy
Making the Cohesion Policy more oriented to results:
In the new post-2013 programs:
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Set of indicators in innovation, competitiveness and social
cohesion
Target values of Europe 2020
Path to benchmark regions to be monitored annually
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Thank you for
your attention!
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