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GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet

Pressure is mounting to downgrade GDP or improve it so economic growth is not the only game in town.
  1. Ehsan Masood

    1. Ehsan Masood is an editor with Nature in London. He is the author of GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change, published in 2021.

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Illustration showing the world impaled by a GDP arrow.

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The numbers are heading in the wrong direction. If the world continues on its current track, it will fall well short of achieving almost all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the United Nations set to protect the environment and end poverty and inequality by 2030.

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Nature 611, 224-226 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03576-w

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