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"In the Commission communication to the European Parliament and the Council entitled ‘GDP and beyond – Measuring progress in a changing world’ (COM(2009) 433 final), it is acknowledged that ‘GDP has also come to be regarded as a proxy indicator for overall societal development and progress in general’ but ‘does not measure environmental sustainability or social inclusion’. In a world in which people’s quality of life is increasingly measured using other, non-economic factors, various international institutions, like the United Nations (UN), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), are currently studying the definition of new indicators, so as to measure and analyse economic and social progress.
As such, I voted for this report, as I believe it is important for the European Union to implement a systematic approach in order to measure social welfare in all its aspects, giving particular emphasis to economic and environmental factors, and to improving quality of life in the medium and long term. I believe that the aforementioned indicators will take on a strategic importance in the definition of future cohesion policy, thereby contributing to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, in line with the principles enshrined in the Europe 2020 strategy."@en1
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