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Gender inequality has its roots in differences between men and women in society. These result from social constructions of relations, which in turn stem from sexual…
Roots of Gender Inequality
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This chapter describes why the concept of sustainable development is so important, why it is so important that we orient towards the three objectives of prosperity,…
Why Sustainable Development is Important:…
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the second key transformation, health and wellbeing. The many dimensions of achieving this transformation are considered,…
Health and Wellbeing
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Good governance is a tenet of development, and when governments are corrupt, economic development and individual sense of well-being within the government's reach…
Corruption and Global Business
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Poverty has been an important part of the development agenda since the 1990s, but the way that we measure poverty has changed drastically over the years. Inequality is…
Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing
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The sixth wave of globalization is the one expected to characterize the 21st century. In this chapter, Professor Sachs provides an overview of the Planetary Boundaries…
Hitting Planetary Boundaries
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Our most important mission and goal is to increase access to modern energy in poor places in the world so that simple daily tasks can be achieved much more easily and…
A World Without Modern Energy
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Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking not only at the functioning of the economic…
Measures of well-being
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How to we measure health status? This video addresses the different ways to address measuring health from the lenses of physical, mental, and social well-being. This…
Measuring Health Status
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This chapter opens with a discussion of environmental crises and the need for deep and widespread change. Dr. Sachs goes on to describe six grand transformations that…
Transformation Challenges
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From Carol Graham, one of the first economists to start thinking about happiness and wellbeing as part of science, learn about happiness and its complex connection to…
Introducing well-being
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This chapter focuses o the six sources of well-being, challenging the traditional capitalist idea that consumers will maximize their well-being and instead looking at…
Six Sources of Wellbeing
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The 11th edition of the World Happiness Report (WHR) was released on Monday, March 20, 2023, the International Day of Happiness. First published in 2012, the annual…
The 2023 World Happiness Report: An Asia-Pacific…
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This lecture examines the different ways to measure well-being in a country, introducing the Human Development Index as an alternative as well as subjective well being.…
Measuring Well-Being
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This chapter focuses on the process of using ethical business practices to build communities of opportunity. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Business Leadership for Community Well-being
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Metrics and quantification are essential for measuring SDG progress, and in this chapter, Professor Sachs explores a number of ways that SDG metrics are becoming…
Data for Accountability and Decision-making
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