Tag: Social Progress Index

  • Kerala’s Focus On Its People Has Paid Off

    KERALA is known to most of us for its touristy tagline, “God’s own country”. It is a sought after holiday destination to either cruise the backwaters or lounge on the palm tree-lined beaches of the Arabian Sea. However, more notably, in recent years it has made waves in the development arena for its ability to…

  • Is GDP The ONLY Way To Measure Progress?

    GDP, GDP, GDP. Has India’s GDP gone up, gone down, gone sideways – it’s all you hear about these days. So what is it, why the obsession and are so many column inches and hours of air time justified?   Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the globally accepted measure of a country’s economy using its financial inputs, i.e.…