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Toward an Alternative to the GDP: A Critical Analysis of the 2009 Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
Rajesh Sampath, PhD

Abstract
This paper explores the 2009 Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress co-authored by the world renowned economists, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi. It explores various skeptical arguments about the ability to produce complex models of global human diversity while producing an alternative to the GDP as a form of measurement of social and economic progress that can be leveraged for development policy-making.

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