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By Steven GorelickOriginally posted on the Economics of Happiness Blog at http://www.localfutures.org/our-obsolescent-economy/A friend of mine from India tells a story about driving an old Volkswagen beetle from California to Virginia during his first year in the...
The Human Development Index (HDI) developed in 1990 by Mahbub-ul-Haq added two dimensions, life expectancy and education, to income to come up with a country indicator which was not completely hung up on economic growth. UNDP has been publishing the index regularly...
We recently shared on social media this article called “What Bill Gates doesn’t know about poverty” (originally published by TheRules.org). The article deals with the fact that although Gates has a noble purpose trying to help eradicate poverty, he seems to be...
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is like Green Growth, Inclusive Growth, Green Economy and so many other catch-all and concepts which are too vague and broad to be useful: nice labels put on ‘business as usual’ policies avoiding the radical changes that are required....