the overall future quality and condition of human life by improving longer-range global policy and long-term policy analysis. In carrying out this mission, the center concentrates on five broad areas: • • • • Developing new methodologies, or refining existing ones, to improve thinking about the long-range effects of policy options. Developing improved measures of human progress on a global scale. Identifying policy issues with important implications for the long-term future—., 35 to 200 years ahead. Using longer-range policy analysis and measures of global progress to improve near-term de.