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Shareholder Values

 
"Of the 1,003 investors surveyed, nearly half (49%) said that over the next 12 months they were likely to invest in a company or mutual fund looking to provide solutions for environmental problems."
--
Allianz Global Investors
   
(USA) January 2008

UK investors asked: "How important do you think it is for companies to take social, environmental and ethical issues seriously? Some 47% of those surveyed replied ‘very seriously’ and a further 40% ‘fairly seriously.'"
--
F&C Investments
   
(UK) January 2007

84% of Canadian shareholders agreed with this statement: "[The] financial community should pay more attention to social and environmental performance when valuing companies."
-- GlobeScan
   
(Canada) February 2004

 

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) & Alternative (Better) Economic And Social Indices For Our Times

Suggested websites are denoted with an asterisk (*).

Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators        (U.S.A.)
"The Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators are a contribution to the worldwide effort to develop comprehensive statistics of national well-being that go beyond traditional macroeconomic indicators."

Canadian Index of Wellbeing                             (Can.)
"The new Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) seeks to provide Canadians with a clear, valid, and regular accounting of the things that matter to them and the genuine progress of Canada."

*Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)                      (U.S.A.)                      
Redefining Progress has developed the Genuine Progress Indicator, a holistic GDP alternative.

GPI Atlantic                                                    (Can.)     
GPI Atlantic is developing a Canadian index of sustainable development and well-being.

Human Development Index                                 (U.N.)
The Human Development Index of the United Nations has become one of the foremost alternative indicators to the GDP.

*Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)     (U.K.)
The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare is probably the pioneer of all alternative indicators to the GDP.

An interesting quote: "Gross national [or domestic] product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living, and it can tell us everything about our country except those things which make us proud to be part of it."
- Robert Kennedy 1968
 

 

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