Going beyond GDP
In this video, we start exploring why GDP effectively became an important yardstick of a country’s performance, and what some of the flaws are when equating economic growth with wellbeing.
We briefly introduce a few examples of alternative approaches to assess and compare how countries are delivering prosperity – prosperity being understood in a way that goes beyond wealth and also includes other factors which can, to a certain extent, be independent of wealth, such as happiness, health and education.
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