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0. Progress measures
Codrin Kruijne edited this page Jul 16, 2018
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Many progress measures have been developed. We list a few traditional an newer ones.
Traditionally societal progress was measured in terms of GDP: a growing economy allowed for the creation of improved living conditions. A big limitation of this metric is the lack of insight into what the impact is on the environment that we depend upon, while businesses pursue profits.
The Social Progress Index (SPI)
The Happy Planet Index (HPI) was an attempt by the New Economics Foundation to create a simple measure that camptures the essence of human well being and ecosystem impact to achieve that well being.