A reporting revolution? Towards a new generation of progress reports

A new flagship? A staircase to nowhere?
A new flagship? – A staircase to nowhere?

A reporting revolution?

Towards a new generation of progress reports


Newsletter: Accession revolution in Brussels – a new flagship – Usain Bolt and the quality of statistics (9 November 2015)

Paris Paper: Enlargement and Impact – Twelve ideas – Dummy Report (January 2015)

 Enlargement 2.0 – The ESI Roadmap Proposal (Belgrade) (27 November 2014)


Making the case for reports 2.0

Summer reading 

An effort of persuasion – Chronology of ESI activities (November 2015)

Vilnius Handout: Why a new generation of progress reports is needed (September 2014)

Video: Enlargement and the benefits of competition (26 February 2014)

Enlargement reloaded – ESI proposal for a new generation of progress reports (31 January 2014)


How (not) to compare countries

How do you measure corruption?

Trust in Numbers – Eurostat and comparing statistics (19 March 2015) 

 Rankings that fail – Doing Business, Bosnia and Macedonia in 2015 (9 November 2015)

Measuring corruption – The case for deep analysis and a simple proposal (19 March 2015)

Pumpkins, outliers and the Doing Business illusion (4 November 2014)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Michael Martens, "Die verkehrte Welt der Weltbank" ("The upside down world of the World Bank") (26 January 2013)


What is not working

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On Writing – Gibberish and Economics (29 April 2015)

ESI report: Vladimir and Estragon in Skopje – A fictional conversation on trust and standards and a plea on how to break a vicious circle (17 July 2014)


Learning from enlargement

Vesna Pusic

ESI report: The difference of leadership - Lessons from Croatia (April 2014)

Kristof Bender presenting. Photo: ESI Gerald Knaus at the annual Ambassadors' conference in Tirana, July 2014
Kristof Bender at the V4 meeting in Bratislava – Gerald Knaus at the annual Ambassadors' conference in Tirana

Photo: ESI Alexandra Stiglmayer speaking to representatives of Serbian think-tanks and NGOs. Photo: ESI
At the Swiss embassy in Paris – Alexandra Stiglmayer speaking to representatives of Serbian think-tanks and NGOs in Brussels