Activities of Kinga GÖNCZ related to 2010/2088(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on GDP and beyond – measuring progress in a changing world
Amendments (8)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas GDP, while an important indicator of economic growth, is tnotally inadequate as an sufficient as a single instrument for guiding policy to meet the challenges of the 21st century,
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes thatAs vertical wealth distribution is not often realised, there is an increasing gap between what official statistics say about economic performance and how people perceive their own living conditions, and that this leads to a lack of trust in government and the democratic process;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. States that an increase in GDP does not actually reduce social disadvantages within Member States as it does not involve the improvement of wealth distribution, followed by the consequence that some are excluded from benefiting from growth;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need to engage societyal partners and representative organisations in order to build a consensus which can provide the legitimacy that is necessary to develop a shared view of societal goals;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls for both qualitative and quantitative metrics to be issued in a timely manner in order to enhance policy makingIs concerned that there is a substantial delay in collecting and providing data regarding the social consequences of the recent financial, economic, and employment crisis; hence, calls for both qualitative and quantitative metrics to be issued in a timely manner, and also based on different types of households, in order to enhance policy making, as well as to react to the challenges caused by the crisis in a more targeted way;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to measure quality of life in societies and notes that such measurement will require metrics from at least the following categories: health and life-expectancy, education, employment, connectedness, political engagementaccess to services and to transportation (primarily in case of disadvantaged microregions), connectedness, level of public trust, political engagement, societal wellbeing (discrimination-free society insuring equal opportunities on every field for all), material wellbeing and environment;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
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6. Stresses the need to measure "coping with income" and the degree to which people are living well in terms of financial and material assets, including minimum income, indebtedness, quality of housing (having affordable heating, electricity and tap water) and the adequacy of social security systems;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 7
7. Calls for indices to reflect distributional issues in society in order to monitorboth horizontal and vertical distribution of wealth in the society in order to see whether different social and ethnic groups get their equal share of the economic progress and if financial growth contributes to social inclusion;