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If we focus only on material wellbeing – on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment – we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted; we become more materialistic.
We were more than pleased with the reception of our report, which spurred an international movement of academics, civil society, and governments to construct and employ metrics that reflected a broader conception of wellbeing.
Better indicators would have revealed the highly negative and possibly long-lasting effects of the deep post-2008 downturn on productivity and wellbeing, in which case policymakers might not have been so enamored of austerity, which lowered fiscal deficits, but reduced national wealth, properly measured, even more.
The hope is that governments putting wellbeing at the center of their agenda will redirect their budgets accordingly.
For example, a New Zealand government focused on wellbeing would direct more of its attention and resources to childhood poverty.
If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their wellbeing, and how we can supply more of whatever that is.
For that reason, leaders must not reject globalization, but work to guide it, so that it advances their citizens’ interests and wellbeing.
It is the product of humankind’s collective wisdom, cultivated over a great many years for the wellbeing of all.
Dealing with Damaging Institutional InertiaLONDON – Deeply rooted, credible, accountable, and effective institutions have long been deemed crucial for a society’s lasting wellbeing and prosperity.
Even more benign shortcomings – such as slowness in modernizing laws to catch up to changing realities – detract from economic wellbeing.
The longer it takes to restore confidence in key public and, to a lesser extent, private institutions, the greater the impediments to our wellbeing and that of our children.
What matters in this worldview is not the nature of any country’s political system, but the extent to which it improves its people’s wellbeing.
And that may be just the start of the negative impact on most Americans’ wellbeing.
In most cases, however, it was the women who experienced the abuse who suffered adverse consequences: damaged reputations and career prospects, not to mention the impact on their psychological and emotional wellbeing.
The government’s concern for workers’ wellbeing could simply reflect the Communist Party of China’s need to secure its domestic political position.
Beyond limiting economic development, the lack of sufficient freshwater resources threatens the wellbeing of billions of people by causing conflict, social unrest, and migration.
The approach the authorities take will have a major impact on the wellbeing of the global economy.
Now is the time to accelerate progress toward gender parity, and to women’s power to deliver growth and improve social wellbeing.
The world must think and act together to preserve the huge gains to human health and wellbeing that antibiotics have enabled.
Machiavelli referred to it as fortuna:the events that shape us and determine our wellbeing are often beyond our reason and control.
Almost every country in the world has committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an international agenda for improving the wellbeing of humanity and the planet that sustains it.
But for the poor, global disparities in wellbeing, seen against the background of human similarity, fuel anger and opposition.
As we continually attempt to apply new technologies to improve human and environmental wellbeing, this distinction is vital.
On the other hand, rapid population growth as a result of higher birth rates can threaten the wellbeing of the poorest communities and countries, by altering the dependency ratio at the other end of the scale.
Reclaiming CommunityCAMBRIDGE – Economics teaches that the measure of an individual’s wellbeing is the quantity and variety of goods he or she can consume.
Joblessness will undermine individual and community wellbeing even if consumption levels are propped up through cash grants.
Is the demand for such a sacrifice not justified – at least in part – by a concern for the wellbeing of others?
Most people understand that coal is a dirty business, one that countries like Australia should abandon for their own economic wellbeing, as well as for the sake of the global climate.
Rather than promoting actions aimed at improving the long-term wellbeing of the system as a whole, these actors tend to push micro objectives, some of which help the traditional, often wealthy elements of the establishment maintain their grip on the system.
In any of these scenarios, human wellbeing could improve in the short term, but would be severely undermined in the longer term, as we blew past planetary boundaries and tipping points.
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