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ISO has draft standard re indicators for city services and quality of life

The International Standards Organization is working on a new series of standards with indicators relating to the sustainable development and resiliency of cities.

A draft is available.

A Youtube.com video about ISI 37101 is available. Introductory information about the project, includes:

Cities need indicators to measure their performance. Existing indicators are often not standardized, consistent, or comparable over time or across cities.

As part of a new series of International Standards being developed for a holistic and integrated approach to sustainable development and resilience, this set of standardized indicators will help
support sustainable development and resilience in cities.

These indicators can be used to track and monitor progress on city performance. In order to achieve sustainable development, the whole city system needs to be taken into consideration. Planning for
future needs must take into consideration current use and efficiency of resources in order to better plan for tomorrow.

The indicators and associated test methods in this International Standard have been developed in order to help cities:
a) measure performance management of city services and quality of life over time;
b) learn from one another by allowing comparison across a wide range of performance measures;
c) share best practices.

Report re bankruptcy that might be requested

Several auditing students have asked for help in finding information aboutNew Century Financial Corporation, a subprime lender that filed for bankruptcy in 2007.

There has also been complaints for fraud brought by the SEC (searchable on the SEC site and also CCH Accounting Research Manager) and also some class action securities litigation, found on the Stanford University securities class action website.

A report by  bankruptcy examiner Missal has been requested.  Although these reports are not usually available full-text, the document was unsealed by the Delaware bankruptcy court and posted on the website of the law firm Missal is associated with.  It runs over 500 pages. An explanation of the report is available.

The World in 2050

Forecasts predicting the state of the world economy in 2050 have been featured in articles in the WSJ and FT recently. Baruch faculty have been talking about these reports so I thought I’d share a few of them with you. Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari at Citi wrote “Global Growth Generators.” Read about it in the FT’s blog. I couldn’t find a copy online.

The others are:

The Super- Cycle Report from Standard Chartered Bank

The World in 2050 from HKSB

A series on the World in 2050 from PWC

World Order in 2050 from the Carnegie Endowment