Measure What Matters: Aligning performance indicators for global sustainable development, national Beyond GDP metrics and improved corporate reporting (Rio Centro, 20 June, 9:00 – 10:30, T 4) If there is one thing that will definitely come out of Rio+20 – it will involve metrics. The call for more coherent corporate …
As part of Civil Society, how the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) is leading change
As part of Civil Society, how the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) is leading change The Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) goes beyond narrow economic measures like GDP and provides Canada’s only national index that measures wellbeing across a wide spectrum of domains. The work of CIW extends beyond Canada; …
What the Greek Rescue is Really About
The Daily Reckoning Presents What the Greek Rescue is Really About Dan Denning In today’s Daily Reckoning, we’ll do something we can barely stand to do: we’re going to write one more time about Greece. If you can stand to read it, you may come to the same conclusion we …
Why Is Finance So Big?
Why Is Finance So Big? Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:29 PM PST By James Kwak This is a chart from ?The Quiet Coup,? an article that we wrote for The Atlantic three years ago next month. Many people have noted that the financial sector has been getting bigger over the …
GEO-5 Summary Highlights Continued Deterioration of the Global Environment
GEO-5 Summary Highlights Continued Deterioration of the Global Environment 20_February 2012: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the Global Environment Outlook-5 (GEO-5) Summary for Policy Makers, which was negotiated and endorsed by governments on 31 January 2012. The summary was released as a prelude to the full report, which …
New Research on Global Corporate Control
New Research on Global Corporate Control Ladislau Dowbor January 3, 2012 “There is a big difference between suspecting the existence of a fact and in empirically demonstrating it” We have all followed, for decades in a row, the news about large companies buying one another, forming increasingly larger groups, in …
New index of wellbeing challenges Canada’s GDP as sole measure of progress
Waterloo, Ont. – Canada has become a world leader in measuring wellbeing with the launch of a new comprehensive composite index set to challenge the gross domestic product (GDP) as the sole measure of our country’s progress, says the Honourable Roy Romanow, advisory board chair for the Canadian Index of …
China’s green economist stirring a shift away from GDP
Niu Wenyuan’s ‘quality index’ measures the economy not just by size, but by sustainability, social equality and ecological impact. Read more…
ASBC on President Obama’s Jobs Package
This week President Obama submitted his American Jobs Act to Congress. According to a story in The Hill most economists from Moody’s Analytics to the Economic Policy Institute think that the plan, if passed, would add about 2 percent to GDP growth next year. Read more from American Sustainable Business Council…
Happiness Should Have Greater Role In Development Policy Un Member States
HAPPINESS SHOULD HAVE GREATER ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT POLICY ? UN MEMBER STATES New York, Jul 19 2011 7:05PM The General Assembly today <“http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2011/ga11116.doc.htm“>called on United Nations Member States to undertake steps that give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development. …