Looking beyond GDP as the main indicator of national performance

1. The Future of
Measuring
National Performance
2030
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2. Reliance on Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Current Conditions
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3. Working more hours and are paid less per
hours worked
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4. Pension Coverage Rate Shrinks
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5. Inequality grows with GDP
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6. Biocapacity levels decreasing
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7. What if we stay on
this course?
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12. IT’S TIME FOR
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16. Alternative Futures
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http://www.demos.org/publication/does-growth-equal-progress-myth-gdp
http://www.presstv.cz/Program/278532.html
http://www.emagazine.com/issue/may-june-1999/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/9102853/Older-workers-
forced-to-do-overtime-for-no-more-pay.html
http://www.greenvitals.net/greenvitalsnet/2011/7/29/europes-appetite-for-seafood-and-
overfishing-threatening-dom.html
http://www.topantisnoringdevices.com/snoring-and-obesity-is-your-throat-fat/
http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/articles/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness#mediaviewer/File:Bhutan_Gross_Nati
onal_Happiness.jpg
http://www.dnr.maryland.gov/mdgpi/
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25021369
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/06/22/how-businesses-are-banking-natural-capital
http://www.newyorker.com/politics/debates
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