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What money can't buy - UN discusses happiness as a measure of progress

News Published 04 Apr 2012 Last modified 21 Jun 2016

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The world needs to move away from measuring success in purely economic terms, and should instead consider other criteria, including distribution of resources, sustainability, health, human rights and education. These were the discussions in a landmark meeting of the United Nations (UN), calling for new measurements of wellbeing beyond GDP in the run up to the Rio sustainability summit in June.