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"I welcomed the report because GDP is an indicator of economic market activity that has become a standard benchmark used by policy makers throughout the world. However, GDP is a measure of production and does not reflect environmental sustainability, resource efficiency, social inclusion or social progress in general. Furthermore, it can be misleading in the sense that remedial measures following certain incidents such as accidents and natural disasters are treated as a benefit instead of a cost. We need to develop additional indicators for measuring medium and long-term economic and social progress. I feel that we need to establish clear and measurable indicators that provide information on climate change, biodiversity, resource efficiency and social inclusion, as well as indicators that reflect the household level more accurately: income, consumption and wealth. There is also a need to measure quality of life in societies, because in order to ensure and sustain quality of life, it is necessary to take into account important, consensual factors such as health, education, culture, employment, housing, environmental conditions, etc. Indicators which measure such factors should be assigned a greater role. The further development of qualitative and quantitative metrics should be based on the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) indicators, covering the core areas of quality of life."@en1
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