UK 13th in new National Accounts of Well-being for Europe
14 Jan 09Results from the first ever attempt to produce National Accounts of Well-being are revealed in a new report and website launched today, Saturday 24 January. The report, National Accounts of Well-being: bringing real wealth onto the balance sheet, presents the most comprehensive international analyses of well-being ever produced.
Leading thinkers support call for National Accounts of Well-being
14 Jan 09nef's call for the introduction of National Accounts of Well-being is gathering support from a range of leading thinkers and commentators, including Professor Lord Richard Layard. “If policy makers are to make well-being a central objective they have to have ways of measuring it”.
nef five ways to well-being in major government report
14 Jan 09nef's centre for well-being has developed a set of five evidence-based actions that, if practised regularly, can improve personal well-being.
Back in the BBC spotlight
10 Feb 09The BBC home affairs editor Mark Easton has made the ‘fascinating National Accounts of Well-being site’ the topic of his blog for a second time.
Parliamentary ‘Wellbeing Economics’ group sets out challenge to GDP
27 Mar 09This week saw the inaugural meeting of the first ever UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics.
World Forum to discuss 'new paradigms to measure progress'
9 Jun 09The OECD has announced its 3rd OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy which will ask the key questions ‘Is life getting better?’ ‘Are our societies really making progress?’ and ‘What are the new paradigms to measure progress?’.
