Research // Wellbeing & Happiness

The Australia Institute Tasmania The Australia Institute South Australia
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ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA

September 1997

Environment & Jobs, Inequality, Wellbeing & Happiness

The Genuine Progress Indicator for Australia

by Clive Hamilton and Hugh Saddler

It has long been recognised that GDP growth does not correlate well with changes in social welfare, i.e. national well-being. The GPI adjusts GDP by 23 factors that reflect some of the social and environmental costs of economic growth to give a better measures of changes in national prosperity. This paper explores these issues in