Category: Alternative GDP and Economic Measures

“The CSIN is a place for Canadian sustainability indicator and reporting practitioners to exchange ideas, data, and methods and to…Continue readingCanadian Sustainability Indicators Network

“As useful a tool as it is, GDP only tells us about our economic productivity, assuming that all growth is…Continue readingCanadian Index of Wellbeing

“The Ethical Markets Quality of Life Indicators, originally the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators and first published in 2000 in…Continue readingEthical Markets Quality of Life Indicators

“The Happy Planet Index is an innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered…Continue readingHappy Planet Index

“The Inclusive Wealth Index, first launched at the Rio +20 conference, presented to states a way of measuring their wealth,…Continue readingInclusive Wealth Index

“The Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking, developed by the Legatum Institute, of 142 countries. The ranking is based…Continue readingLegatum Prosperity Index

“In contrast to the conventional narrow focus on economic indicators, it [National Accounts of Well-being] calls for governments to directly…Continue readingNational Accounts of Well Being

“The Social Progress Index is an aggregate index of 54 social and environmental indicators that capture three dimensions of social…Continue readingSocial Progress Index

“The nonprofit, nonpartisan State of the USA is preparing – in concert with the National Academy of Sciences – to…Continue readingState of the USA

“The HDI is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life,…Continue readingUN Human Development Index (HDI)