7 Amendments of Traian UNGUREANU related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas GDP, while an important indicator of economic growth, is totallycould be used together with additional inadequate as an instrument for guiding policy to meetxes to better quantify the responses to the challenges of the 21st century,
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that 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 processcalls for the creation of more accurate indices and better interpretation;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The use and interpretation of better indices should be disseminated in a more comprehensive way for the general public, with a view to promote a clear view to the socio-economic context of a given period of time;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need to engage society in order to build a consensus which can provide the legitimacy that is necessary to develop a shared view of societal goafor all Member States to take a more active role in defining the constraints they are dealing with and the means of quantifying and computing possible indices to be used on a general bases for quantitative models;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to measure quality of life in societies and notes that such measurement will require metrFor a better quantification of a state's welfare, indices from at least the following categories:and aggregate indexes measuring health, education, employment, connectedness, political engagement, material wellbeing and environment should become bases of reference for explaining the level of quality of life together with the GDP;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that, as well asmong measuring quality of life and wellbeing, we also need to measure progress, which is multidimensional and dynamic, and incorporates both material and non- material aspectseconomic development and productivity, there are other indicators that influence and explain the wellbeing of a country and that haven't been measured (quantified) until now;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
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 and the adequacy of social security systemsfor a better assessment of the effects of income by urging the Member States to provide more accurate data and under a tighter time frame;