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"Economic literature has been asking for years whether it is necessary to continue using the rate of growth of GDP as an indicator of the progress made by a geographic area over a given period of time. I believe that there is currently no other indicator that is as concise or complete. We cannot present our citizens, who are caught up in their own everyday problems, with a clinical file describing the state of the economy. At the same time, we cannot insist exclusively on strictly economic indicators, which are not always able to pick up on social phenomena.
I therefore agree with the report’s general objective. We should join forces with the international academic community and try to move beyond GDP. There are plenty of examples all over the world, from the UN Human Development Index to Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness index. It is necessary to identify the priority objectives and measure their achievement strictly, accurately and in a way that cannot be distorted by vested interests. We need to remember that it does not matter how many watches we have, but how we spend our time."@en1
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