GDP is inadequate to address the range and depth of problems across the globe, but measures such as the Social Progress Index can help countries make better choices.
Read MoreGross National Happiness index supplements the concept of GDP with a more holistic measure of development.
Read MoreSEED's own Dirk Philipsen discusses the shortcomings of GDP as an economic measure, including its ignorance of gaping wealth disparities, dwindling natural resources, and a deteriorating environment.
Read MoreHumanity reaches Earth Overshoot Day five days earlier in 2016 than last year. What can we do to counter the continual growth of our ecological debt?
Read MoreMichael Green, Executive Director of the Social Progress Imperative, makes a case for GDP's inability to accurately reflect a country's social progress, and advises that we turn to the Social Progress Index, a more inclusive and ambitious measure.
Read MoreExperts reflect on the ways that our basic measurement systems (GDP) have not kept pace with the evolution of the economy from industrial to service to information to network.
Read MoreUN Assistant Secretary General outlines five elements that will be crucial in the international community's new approach toward sustainability.
Read MoreSustainability expert Rafal Rudzki reflects on the ways in which GDP as a lone measure falls short of capturing social progress, for it ignores for example the environment or well-being of society.
Read MoreThe 2016 Social Progress Index, published by the Social Progress Imperative, reveals that economic growth is not the sole determinant of quality of life.
Read MoreMathis Wackernagal, President of the Global Footprint Network, shares his thoughts on the consequences and effects of economic growth worldwide, namely humanity's growing ecological footprint.
Read MoreWe are requesting submissions of artistic representations that both clarify and dramatize the many shortcomings/dangers of dominant national and global obsessions with growth.
A committee consisting of scholars, students, political practitioners, and documentarians will award a $4,000 award for the first prize, $1,000 for the second, and $1,000 for the Judge’s Choice prize. All the winners will be invited to a public award ceremony at Duke University. The first prize winner will also be featured at an event at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies.
Read MoreThe planet is facing a series of challenges that could lead to a significant loss of ecosystem integrity. These challenges are caused by human demand, natural resource and space use.
Read MoreThe past century in global health has taught us that we do not need to travel to the moon to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We need to invest in strong health systems, and surgery and anesthesia care represent a major cross-cutting foundation for these systems.
Read MoreInstead of population growth, property values and poverty rates, counties would be measured based on the unemployment rate, median household incomes, average annual wages and the percentage of residents who didn't complete high school.
Read MoreThe lifting of sanctions will support positive change quickly if government funds are freed to tackle environmental challenges and if international investment is encouraged in green technology
Read MoreWhile somewhat fragmented in its approach to green development, China is working toward environmental improvements in several areas
Read MoreThere is clearly still a long way to go to tackle the root causes of poverty and inequality and above all, for children, on whom future development and economic growth depend
Read MoreThe Sustainable Development Goals give the continent a new opportunity to achieve a new set of objectives.
Read MoreCould the world order survive without growing?
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