Community Portal February 2010
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Progress in the News
Human Resources Key to Economic Progress (The UN Post 24.02.2010)
The quality of human resources has a strong influence on the ability of societies, enterprises and governments to ...
Economist Intelligence Unit Quality of Life Index: UAE ranks number 1 in Mena (Middle East Company News 20.02.2010
The UAE has been ranked number 1, as the country with the best quality of life in the Middle East and North Africa region...
UAE tops Quality of Life index (Trade Arabia 20.02.2010)
The UAE has been ranked the number one country with the best quality of life in the Middle East and North Africa region in the reputed...
What Makes Cities Happy (The Atlantic 18.02.2010)
Earlier this week, I discussed the new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index of happy cities. Today, with the help of my Martin Prosperity ...
Nailing our happiness colours to the wall (Sydney Morning Herald 18.02.2010)
Happiness. Love. For most of us these are all lovely notions, floating in balloons of abstraction in the stratosphere; limited to art more than science...
Gross national happiness and a little place called Bhutan (Business Mirror 17.02.2010)
It was by a strange but fortuitous turn of events that I chanced upon Bhutan, a little-known country that is perhaps the only one that measures...
Blogs on Progress
GDP vs. “Happiness”: Economics Are Getting Smarter (TriplePundit Blog 26.02.2010)
Five years ago, 3p reported that GDP does not correlate with happiness, and that another, more holisitic metric...
The gender impact of the global meltdown: 7 new papers and a video (From Poverty to Power Blog 24.02.2010)
One of the aspects which is almost invariably missing from substantive discussions on the global economic crisis (and which
What Makes Happy Cities Happy (Creative Class Blog 19.02.2010)
Earlier this week, I discussed the new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index of happy cities. Today, with the help of my Martin Prosperity...
Happy Times (Idea Locker Blog 17.02.2010)
The Yale School of Management’s publication Qn has an illuminating interview with economist Betsey Stevenson, who’s been one of the more thoughtful...
Wikigender Stepping Toward Equal Communities (No Country for Young (and old) Women 16.02.2010)
With the barrage of messages and updates from Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, the world of new media can be an overwhelming place...
Well-Being: Hawaii Tops Utah for Nation’s Best (Gallup 15.02.2010)
Hawaii's residents had the highest well-being in the nation in 2009, pulling ahead of 2008 leader Utah, and coming in with a new high...
Among Large Cities, San Jose and D.C. Lead in Well-Being (Gallup 15.02.2010)
Among the nation's 52 largest metropolitan areas that Gallup surveyed in 2009, San Jose, Calif., had the highest well-being in the...
TED Day One: A Change Will Do You Good (Harvard Business Review 11.02.2010)
At TED, speakers who want to conclude their 18-minute "Talk" with oomph usually have a killer quote in their quiver. And it seems...
Well-being v ‘growth with equity’: what are the pros and cons? (From Poverty to Power 11.02.2010)
The process of evolution takes place in three stages: random mutation, selection and replication. It’s not a bad model for how new ideas...
The Limit of GDP (European Alternatives 10.02.2010)
In 1934 the creator of GDP Simon Kuznets, presenting it to the Congress, warned that “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred...
Panta Rei? (Vision Web Magazine 10.02.2010)
Heraclitus affirmed that only transformation of things is real, while their still identity is illusory.
Economics of Happiness: Reflections from the 2010 World Economic Forum, Davos (The Huffington Post 3.02.2010)
Is happiness real? Is it possible that happiness is a tangible asset whose value can be measured and quantified?
