Better life initiative - media review
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- OECD launches happiness index (AFP 24.05.2011)
A so-called "happiness index" to measure well-being and perceptions of living conditions came into life at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday.
- Separating GDP from happiness (Business 24.05.2011)
I wasn’t a memorable economics student at varsity. In fact I nearly failed the subject in my first year, partly because I’d spent too much time helping to stick and paste the student newspaper together, but mostly because I found the “social science” of economics counterintuitive
- OECD looks to measure the ‘better life’ (The Financial Times 24.05.2011)
It is time to move beyond gross domestic product when measuring the success of societies, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has concluded in a change of mission for the international organisation.
- Canadians can’t complain: Better Life Index (The Globe and Mail 24.05.2011)
All in all, Canadians are a pretty comfortable and happy lot. The country ranks at or near the top in many of 11 well-being indicators in a new quality of life index, unveiled Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Only Australia topped Canada.
- Organisation launches 'happiness index' (News.Com 24.05.2011)
A so-called "happiness index" to measure well-being and perceptions of living conditions came into life at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) today.
- How's life? OECD proposes shift away from GDP as main progress indicator (Associated Press 24.05.2011)
An international agency known for its number crunching is offering a new way to measure how good life in your country is compared with others.
- Brits are happier and wealthier than European counterparts....but we're also fatter and frightened of going out after dark (Mail Online 24.05.2011)
It may come as a surprise to many, but living in the UK makes you one of the happiest people in Europe.
- We may be fat and frightened but Britons are getting happier (London Evening Standard 24.05.2011)
Britons are fatter and more scared than people in other European countries - but we work shorter hours and earn more, it emerged today.
