"For 60 years Gross Domestic Product, or GDP for short, has been the yardstick by which the world has measured and understood economic and social progress. However, it has failed to capture some of the factors that make a difference in people’s lives and contribute to their happiness, such as security, leisure,income distribution and a clean environment–including the kinds of factors which growth itself needs to be sustainable."
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Joseph Stiglitz, in Beyond GDP: Measuring the impact of Operational Programmes in relation to economic growth and sustainable development at a local/regional level., QeC-ERAN
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