Matthew - CASSE NSW
- Jun 11, 2020
- 1 min read

"New Zealand Deprioritizes Growth to Improve Health and Wellbeing" by James Magnus-Johnson

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has de-prioritized GDP growth in favor of improving well-being, and her personal approval rating is 65 percent. James Magnus-Johnson (a PhD researcher at McGill University in the Leadership for the Ecozoic program) explores the shift in policy of NZ government away from highly inaccurate measures toward Well being, clearly what should always have been a central goal for Public Policy . See link below:

https://steadystate.org/new-zealand-deprioritizes-growth-to-improve-health-and-wellbeing/

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