If you need a great example of how GDP isn't really a great way of measuring the actual state of an economy, in its ability to
actually meet the needs of people, then a new piece from Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy does a great job.
Not exact matches
I think they think
meeting someone's
needs is to rope you into their programmes and projects, but
actually what that does is blind
people to the real
needs in
peoples» lives and blocks
people from forming real relationships, on the basis
of who they are, in these organisations.
I like to think
of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder
people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is
actually sabotaging the club... one only
needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames
of conspiracy... just think
of the perceived importance
of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance
of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two
meetings last season, the proximity to the closing
of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?
There are
actually statistics that show that salary increase only make
people happier until basic
needs of food and water are
met.
Yet, alarmingly, most
people think the purpose
of a relationship is to
actually find someone who will
meet your emotional
needs!
Online dating is easy and simple, all you
need to do is register to our site and start browsing single
people profiles, chat online with
people you'd like Online dating can feel somewhat predictable and getting to know the
person online first can have the affect
of killing the excitement
of actually meeting
Jo Barbie: We're fearful that they will not have time to do what they
need to be doing in the classroom because they're trying to
meet the
needs of this assessment — to the point where we
actually hired a full - time
person to work in all
of our kindergarten classrooms this year to pilot this [TS Gold] assessment.
Our biggest problem appears to be that transit planning has never been driven by the market research required to
meet the
needs of people who are willing to get out
of traffic to
actually shift to taking transit and «not invented here» is an unfortunately large factor.
This was a competent and professional
meeting, with a lot
of people actually starting to think about what might
need to be done for 50 - 100 years off.
On the eve
of the first board
meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund, Friends
of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every development finance institution: how to design and operate a large - scale fund that
actually meets the
needs of ordinary
people in developing countries in an ecologically sustainable...
And the best part
of this concept is that it
actually has the potential to work, to serve the
needs of people who aren't flush with expendable income, but are capable
of paying a reasonable fee for the services they
need, if only lawyers would be kind enough to charge a fee that
meets their financial situation while sufficing to cover the lawyers» costs.