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Ban Ki-moon:
"We need to move beyond gross domestic product as our main measure of progress, and fashion a sustainable development index that puts people first"
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Remarks to the High-level Delegation of Mayors and Regional Authorities, New York, USA, 23 April 2012)
Robert Kennedy:
"GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play"
Robert Kennedy in a speech at the University of Kansas on 18 March 1968
Joseph Stiglitz:
"GDP tells you nothing about sustainability"
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz proposes alternatives to Gross Domestic Product as a measurement of national economic success, 2008 (publ. 2010)
David Cameron:
"It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB - general wellbeing"
British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference in May 2006
José Barroso:
"The appropriate choice of indicators is key to boost our understanding of the complexity of our diverse societies within the European Union, to better communicate on it, and to better respond to new policy needs as for example with the "GDP and beyond" initiative to include measurement of well being."
José Barroso, President of the European Commission, in his opening speech at the Eurostat Conference "Statistics for policy making: Europe 2020" on 10 March 2011 in Brussels.
Stavros Dimas:
"GDP was not intended to be a measure of wellbeing"
Stavros Dimas, former European Commissioner for Environment. Press conference in connection with the presentation of the EU Roadmap on 8 September 2009
"We need to move beyond gross domestic product as our main measure of progress, and fashion a sustainable development index that puts people first"
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Remarks to the High-level Delegation of Mayors and Regional Authorities, New York, USA, 23 April 2012)
Robert Kennedy:
"GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play"
Robert Kennedy in a speech at the University of Kansas on 18 March 1968
Joseph Stiglitz:
"GDP tells you nothing about sustainability"
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz proposes alternatives to Gross Domestic Product as a measurement of national economic success, 2008 (publ. 2010)
David Cameron:
"It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB - general wellbeing"
British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference in May 2006
José Barroso:
"The appropriate choice of indicators is key to boost our understanding of the complexity of our diverse societies within the European Union, to better communicate on it, and to better respond to new policy needs as for example with the "GDP and beyond" initiative to include measurement of well being."
José Barroso, President of the European Commission, in his opening speech at the Eurostat Conference "Statistics for policy making: Europe 2020" on 10 March 2011 in Brussels.
Stavros Dimas:
"GDP was not intended to be a measure of wellbeing"
Stavros Dimas, former European Commissioner for Environment. Press conference in connection with the presentation of the EU Roadmap on 8 September 2009