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GDP indicators must integrate economy and environment: Stakeholders - 31 August 2011 - News

Growth indicators should take into account social progress and the use of natural resources, said a number of NGO and institutional leaders at a conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, at which the European Investment Bank revealed it was still unable to fully measure its ecological footprint.

Why Christine Lagarde is right about Germany - 30 March 2010 - Analysis

As French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso have recently suggested, Germany must tackle its vast trade surplus and do more to boost domestic demand, writes Philip Whyte, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER), in a March publication.

What do citizens want? Well-being measurement and European social policymaking - 10 December 2009 - Analysis

"The gaps in the information which is already available are not a good enough reason for Europe to drag its feet in refocusing policy to ensure that the EU has a sustainable economic and social model capable of meeting the challenges it will face in the future," write Sotiria Theodoropoulou and Fabian Zuleeg, policy analysts at the European Policy Centre, in a December paper.

EU to develop indicators for eco-efficient economy - 21 October 2009 - News

EU environment ministers have asked the European Commission to develop robust indicators to measure the bloc's progress towards an eco-efficient economy, a concept that will be at the core of the revised Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, to be agreed upon next spring.

Sarkozy unveils new plan to measure economic growth - 15 September 2009 - News

French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged countries to join in a "revolution" to use new ways to measure economic prosperity with more emphasis on the environment, as he kept up his calls for reform ahead of next week's summit of Group of 20 leaders.

EU mulls indicators to measure wellbeing 'beyond GDP' - 31 August 2009 - News

The European Commission has published a roadmap for developing new environmental and social indicators to measure the real prosperity and wellbeing of nations beyond traditional GDP. The reflections could affect the strategic goals of the post-2010 Lisbon Strategy for growth and jobs.

Gloomy economic outlook as inflation hits new record - 01 August 2008 - News

Amidst an overall worsening of economic indicators, inflation in the euro zone has reached a new record high, according to Eurostat estimates published yesterday (31 July).

GDP 'outdated' as indicator of wellbeing - 20 November 2007 - News

The Commission is working on a new tool to measure the wealth and wellbeing of countries beyond the traditional GDP. The new tool will aim to measure 'true' progress, taking environmental and social indicators into consideration.

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