Measures of poverty and well-being still ignore the environment - this must change

The Ecologist
Mar 15, 2017, 2:46 pm146 pts
Orthodox economic measures like Gross Domestic product fail to measure the things that matter most, write Judith Schleicher & Bhaskar Vira: like human wellbeing and ecological health. This creates a systematic bias in 'development' policies that must urgently be addressed if we are to build an inclusive,…

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