Prosperity indicators (also met as welfare indexes) constitute an important metric towards assessing the level of prosperity in modern communities and/or countries. The document at hand aims at a thorough search, study and recording of various prosperity indicators (e.g. Gross Domestic Product GDP) used in European and global scale, as well as of the underlying data. The document examines and a...

The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, introduced by the Jason Kenney United Conservative Government, seeks to “enable access capital, make financing more affordable and improve lending terms create economic prosperity social improvements in communities” (AIOC 2019). In other words, it provides nations with loans participate resource development Alberta. This neoliberalist approach s...

Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission This paper argues – in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress – that we should now be measuring a nation’s emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental well-being not the number of pounds in people’s ban...

domestic product (GDP) growth, material resource use and carbon emissions it is remarkable that most economic policy approaches do not question the priority placed on GDP growth (Jackson 2009). Assuming that the basic function of economic development is the provision of conditions for human beings to prosper in their personal and social lives, our research attempts to identify potentials for a ...

By investigating living standards in Slovenia in the 1980’s this article attempts to prove a hypothesis about the ambiguity of prosperity as far as possession of certain assets and housing standards are concerned. The author explores the subject by analyzing data collected through the "Quality of Life Survey" in 1984 and 1991 by random sampling. The results prove the ambiguity of prosperity by ...