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First-Ever Global Assembly on Measuring Civil Society; U.N., Johns Hopkins Improving Data on Global Nonprofit Sector.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, September, 2007
Byline: Johns Hopkins University
BALTIMORE, Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A global assembly of statistical officials and civil society leaders from 34 countries will meet in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday, Sept. 25, through Thursday, Sept. 27, to assess progress being made in measuring the civil society sector, volunteering and philanthropy through the implementation of the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts.
Guidelines in the handbook call on national statistical offices to prepare regular "satellite accounts" on the nonprofit sector, philanthropy and volunteering as part of their official economic data-gathering and reporting. Published by the United Nations in 2003, the handbook was developed in...
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