Impact of the new economy on education sector outputs Albert Tuijnman health sector outputs Michael

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Impact of the new economy on - education sector
outputs (Albert Tuijnman)- health sector outputs
(Michael Wolfson)

• Discussant Denise Lievesley

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Refreshingly broad definition of new economy

• changes to the social and policy landscapes of
  countries
• globalisation and the death of distance
• indirect impact of ICT resulting in new products
  and services
• new demands and expectations of the population

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• Both papers highlight deficiencies in current
  measurement
• Wider range of providers
• Increasing role of non-formal sector
• alternative education and health care
• Wider range of services
• Individualised provision over lifetimes
• Changes in quality of services

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Problems of measuring productivity

• Focus on input measures is inadequate
• Difficulties in measuring output
• Changes in expectations cause difficulties for
  customer satisfaction studies
• Need to broaden definitions of education and
  health care
• learning as well as teaching
• prevention as well as treatment

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Education and healthare critical economic sectors

• Essential for judging performance of countries
• Investment in ICT necessary but not sufficient
• Basic infrastructure required
• Healthy educated populations prerequisite for
  development
• e.g. HIV-AIDS

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Death of distance

• has focused on changes in societal structure
  within countries
• New economy impacts on education and health
  between countries
• distance learning
• work travels
• different population structures
• sharing of large scale resources
• e.g. human genome project
• travel to specialist resources
• changes expectations
• supply is not independent of demand

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Distance is not dead

• Barriers to free flow of health and education
  due to protectionism
• Drug regulations
• Patents
• Intellectual property
• Inequitable distribution of resources
• National embargoes inhibit spread of knowledge

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Statistical priorities

• Current measurements are inadequate
• But statistical resources are limited
• What priorities should be given to improving the
  measurement of health and education sector
  outputs?
• Importance of social alongside economic impacts
• Should countries with limited resources focus on
  policy impact of data?
• Need for taxonomies to guide statistical
  development