Nowadays, most countries improve the standard of living through economic development. But some social values are lost as a result. Do you think the advantages of the phenomenon outweigh the disadvantages?

The development based on economic and financial measures has been broadly adopted in most part of countries to determine material progress.

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most of the indicators used do not picture many dimensions of

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integrated growth able to consider value-based aspects like happiness and satisfaction with life.

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with, basic needs are satisfied by public and private policies and enterprises which produce the

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resources like drinking water, materials for housing and sheltering, food, medicines etc.

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production is a significant metric to be used so that improvements can be observed in a given society.

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, the GDP - Gross Domestic Product - measures all the goods produced by an economy, but non-paid jobs

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as those performed by mothers

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taking care of their children or housewives when they are keeping their homes are not taken into account.

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, many basic needs are related to social dimensions like belonging and esteem and they cannot be provided by the production of material goods itself.

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, the HDI - Human Development Index - tries to capture how well

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, education and living standards of a population are performing in a period and compares it through

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time.

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, it is a wider measure than the GDP, but it does not capture what makes

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happier and more

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their lives. These conditions depend on how a given culture faces and signifies life itself. In conclusion, I believe that the economic perspective is not enough to quantify how developed a country is. These measures must be complemented with other dimensions that are able to verify if social needs are being met so that people can improve their quality of life in a sustainable manner.