The High-Level Seminar is co-organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and hosted by the General Authority of Statistics in Saudi Arabia. It will seek a collaborative regional response to the need for economic statistics that support evidence‐based policymaking within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This response may call for a step‐change in the update of the conceptual framework of the system of economic statistics combining measures of economic activity on trends in technological breakthroughs, demographic, environmental and social change, urbanization, globalization and digitalization dynamics with broader measures on equitable and sustainable economic performance.

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