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5 Amendments of Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU related to 2010/2088(INI)

Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs noteApplauds the Commission's initiative to launch a fruitful and serious dialogue on improving gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator forestablishing indicators in addition to GDP so as better to assessing economic activity and progress.;
2010/10/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. The committee believes that GDP suffers from many shortcomings - for example, it does not record unemployment, underemployment, inequalities or environmental disasters - particularly bearing in mind the development model followed as a dogma by our economies, aimed first and foremost at maximum profit. The use and management of the statistical indicators for an economy reflect the type of economic development followed by each society. In the dominant development model applied until now, the quality of life, well-being of citizens and environmental changes play a secondary role.deleted
2010/10/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Believes that GDP is not sufficient to record the complex socio-economic reality of the regions and regional challenges. The incorporation of new indicators is directly linked to the pursuit of the ambitious objectives of the EU 2020 Strategy;
2010/10/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. The committee nevertheless believes that challenging GDP's monopoly as a statistical indicator guiding economic policies requires radical changes to the system for planning and implementing economic and social policies, in addition to the above actions, so as to take account of both environmental and social parameters.deleted
2010/10/28
Committee: ECON
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 l (new)
4l. Notes, however, that questioning GDP as the sole statistical indicator and introducing supplementary indicators will lead to economic policies at national and European level in new directions and introduce new aspects relating to the quality of development and the prosperity of citizens;
2010/10/28
Committee: ECON