GDP is not enough to measure a country’s development. What if we used the Sustainable Development Goals instead?

By Eric Champagne, Professeur agrégé, École d'études politique, Directeur, Centre d'études en gouvernance / Associate professor, School of Political Studies, Director, Centre on Governance, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Cristina D'Alessandro, Chercheure associée au Centre d'études en gouvernance, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Gross domestic product (GDP) has long been the main indicator of economic growth used almost everywhere in the world.

However, the measurement does not take into account other factors essential to a country’s growth and development, such as social inequalities, the environment and the well-being of citizens.

In the last ten years, the climate deadlock and the limits of the current economic model based on the infinite growth…

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