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• Strong & Tolerant

  Having a population rich in heritage, cultures and languages provides enormous social, cultural and economic benefits.  The arts are important for adding to community strength and identity, and are recognised for enabling communication across a range of different groups within society. Voting is a way that people can participate in decision-making, to be fairly represented and to seek redress for discrimination. 

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• For well over half a century

  For well over half a century the well-being of nations has been measured and compared by using Gross Domestic (or National) Product (GDP). GDP is mainly concerned with the total amount of cash flowing in an economy.

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• Increasingly regions and nations

  Increasingly regions and nations want to find out about more than economic activity. They want to know about the well-being of their populations.

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• Natural disasters a decline

  Natural disasters (and the cost of cleaning up after them) actually create an increase in GDP, thus counting natural disasters as a benefit to our economy. From a GPI perspective, natural disasters would be a decline in our well-being

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• In recent years, there has been growing consensus

  In recent years, there has been growing consensus that progress and well-being are more than just economic growth. The Genuine Progress Index attempts to include the true costs and benefits to society in its measurements to get a more accurate picture of how we are doing.

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• GPI measures more than just spending

  GPI measures more than just spending, taking into account social, environmental, economic and cultural factors to determine growth and/or decline in important areas of our lives, and to determine whether economic growth has actually resulted in an improvement on well-being.

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• Smoking a cost

  Using GDP, smoking has traditionally been counted as a benefit to the economy. With a GPI, smoking is regarded as a cost

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• Aaron Packard Thesis (2009) "Rethinking 'Progress'; An Evaluation of the Wellington Region Genuine Progress Index"

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• Labour force participation

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• Unemployment rate

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