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“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP

Michael Lee Stallard

In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Copyright © 2010 Michael Lee Stallard Military Gamification in Everything? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Did Relative Deprivation Drive The Arab Spring?

The Horizons Tracker

These were then compared with the 2010 SFH values, and the comparison revealed that those countries with the lowest-intensity protests were also those where citizens were subjectively happiest. Indeed, those countries also appeared happier than citizens of countries with higher GDP per capita.

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

In 2009, 97 American undergraduates studied Bengali , the 7th most spoken language in the world. Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. And, in 2010, Arne Duncan announced that 95% of American college students in language classes were taking European languages.

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Where Does Your Nation Rank on Wellbeing?

Harvard Business Review

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. A movement that began with Bhutan's Index of Gross National Happiness has grown to include Nicolas Sarkozy's 2009 commission , and David Cameron's new initiative to track wellbeing in the UK.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. Specifically, we estimate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China will spend $41.5 At present, some 32% of China's GDP can be attributed to domestic consumption. trillion to $6.2

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Back in January 2009 European officials assumed that the crisis was purely a U.S. This assumption could not have been farther from the truth; a recession started in Europe in the first quarter of 2009, just a couple of months after it hit the U.S. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP.

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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

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