Sub-Saharan Africa recorded 1.3 million AIDS-related deaths in 2004. While there is no cure, the expansion of antiretroviral therapy is helping people live (...)
Measuring well-being beyond GDP
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Society is increasingly skeptical of companies prioritizing profit over community well-being. The question of how to balance these two concepts is becoming (...)
Craig Pesme looks at several common, complementary indicators, including growth measurement and gross domestic product (GDP), and examines their biases (...)
In this episode, Stéphane Zuber explains how economists assess climate policies and introduce the notion of intergenerational equity. He develops this (...)
Although very useful and important, gross domestic product (GDP) is not enough to measure people’s well-being. While reflecting all market transactions, (...)
What new indicators should be used to measure economic performance and social progress beyond the limits of GDP? In this editorial, Marc Fleurbaey (...)