Isolezwe nGesonto Sunday

GDP as a measure is not the be all and end all

falling short

FROM February 24 to this past Friday, the bean counters of the world attended the UN Statistics Commission in New York.

This reminded me of the last in-person commission of March 2020 which ended on the 7th. A few days later, the world was not the same – we were confronted by that which we now know as Covid-19, an experience that shook the world and changed it forever.

It is little wonder that the 54th commission convened a seminar in February last year, titled “Beyond GDP Sprint”, to probe

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