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For Good Measure: Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP

11/27/2018
Network Papers

The OECD-hosted High-Level Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (HLEG) was created in 2013 to pursue the work of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress convened by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, the so-called Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, whose final report was published in September 2009.

This book contains a collection of chapters written by members of the HLEG on topics that were the focus of the Group’s work. A companion report, Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance, presents the Chairs’ overview of the issues discussed by the HLEG over the past five years and sets out a number of recommendations on what needs to be done next.