Community Portal November 2009
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Progress in the News
The pursuit of gross national happiness?(Trinidad Tobago Express 29.11.2009)
Prof Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winner 2001, came to UWI and delivered a brilliant lecture on the measurement or rather the mismeasurement of...
Nobel laureate says happiness important for growth (Retuers 23.11.2009)
Levels of happiness could help shape economic policy in the industrialized world in the same way such factors have gained prominence in developing...
France: GDP stays, happiness too hard to pin down (The Associated Press 17.11.09)
Gross domestic product — that traditional way of measuring economic growth — has won out over a new happiness index in France...
France to create new economic well-being statistics (Forbes 17.11.09)
France will create a new set of statistics to measure economic well-being but they will not replace the traditional quarterly measure of gross...
Economists Seek to Fix a Defect in Data That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor (New York Times 08.11.09)
A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the country’s economic health, overstating growth and productivity...
New Statistics Should Be Developed to Reflect Real Sides of Society (Maeil 02.11.09)<br>The worst depression in 70 years now seems to be entering the final lap. Official indices at least are indicating the recession will be behind us before...
Misleading Indicator The Atlantic 01.11.09)
Here’s a question no one ever asks about the Great Recession: How do we even know it’s happening? Daily, almost, someone releases employment ...
