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Against GDP

Nov 22, 2019 2 minutos
By David Pilling

THIS YEAR, NEW ZEALAND BECAME THE FIRST NATION TO formally drop gross domestic product (GDP) as its main measure of economic success. The government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the budget would aim not at maximizing GDP but instead at maximizing well-being.

Apart from schools, hospitals and roads, whose budgets

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