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TY - JOUR AU - Monni, Salvatore AU - Spaventa, Alessandro PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/01 TI - Beyond GDP and HDI: Shifting the focus from paradigms to politics JO - Development SP - 227 EP - 231 VL - 56 IS - 2 AB - This article raises a simple question. In the debate between GDP and other indicators of well-being (e.g., MEW, HDI, GNH), it is forgotten that these are all external indicators that purport to privilege different goals as reflective of human welfare. The larger question is whether it is possible to shift the focus of policy from a battle between competing paradigms to a mechanism for eliciting information on well-being directly from the population. SN - 1461-7072 UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2013.30 DO - 10.1057/dev.2013.30 ID - Monni2013 ER -