Hundreds of indicators are used to measure progress in areas such as education,health,poverty, the environment and trade.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

In December,the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Last week the international lender released its yearly World Development Indicators.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Eric Swanson is a program manager for the World Development Indicators.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

from the nation's beleaguered banking sector that outshone another dose of discouraging numbers on employment,business inventories, and other economic indicators.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

"which was one of the key indicators that we used." Paul Hanle is president of the Biotechnology Institute, which co-sponsored the study.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

He wants other countries to follow France's example in looking at less materialistic indicators of progress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The new indicators would also include non-material 'wealth', like access to education and health care.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Economist Peter Sperling of Touro College says unemployment figures are likely to continue even higher, despite recent positive indicators from beleaguered sectors of the U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

Goolsbee says recent indicators showing improvement in some sectors of the U.S.economy are encouraging Americans who had stopped looking for work to re-enter the job market.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

After rising steadily for more than a year, the index of leading economic indicators actually slipped by .1 percent in April, according to a private research group.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

According to French President Nicolas Sarkozy,the answer is 'no.' Mr.Sarkozy announced France will begin including less tangible indicators, like happiness and well being, into its measurements of economic progress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Despite a generally upward trend in recent months on Wall Street, President Obama, administration officials, and economists continue to caution that employment will lag behind other indicators of economic recovery.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

But do these indicators capture all facets of progress?

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But it tends to lag behind other indicators.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

"Brazil,Cameroon,and Indonesia have all reduced illegal logging significantly - one of our indicators suggest that the illegal logging in each of those countries may have been reduced by anywhere from half to three-quarters."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

"Additional forces will begin to deploy shortly,". "And by this time next year, new security gains will be illuminated by specific indicators and it will be clear to us that the insurgency has lost the momentum.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

That translates into "Unfortunately, despite the most recent indicators that suggest the recovery may be in sight somewhat earlier than we were expecting only a few months ago, it will take far for the recovery to materialize in terms of significant improvement in the labor market,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16