Obama’s speech at the Summit 2010 on MDGs

Posted by Wilma Massucco on October 5, 2010 under News | Be the First to Comment

At the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, New York, 20 – 22 September 2010, these are, in Obama’s speech, the three main pillars of US development aid policy.

1. First, we’re changing how we define development. For too long, we’ve measured our efforts by the dollars we spent and the food and medicines that we delivered. But aid alone is not development. Development is helping nations to actually develop — moving from poverty to prosperity.
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If welfare doesn’t mean well-being, what’s the right definition for Development?

Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 3, 2010 under Interviews, News | Read the First Comment

“There’s a strong relationship between the increase of social and environmental deterioration and the increase of economy, i.e. increase of GDP” – says Stefano Bartolini, Professor of Politic Economy at University of Siena (Italy) and writer of the book recently published “Manifesto per la felicità, Come passare dalla società del ben – avere a quella del ben – essere (2010, pp. XIV-306, Ed. Saggine)” – Manifest for Happiness, How to change from a society of material-well being to a society of social -well being.

“In such a case, you are daily induced to afford new expenditures, in order to fill your own hole” – he explains – ” which increase the value of GDP but doesn’t improve the quality of life. On the contrary, it gets worse and worse, as the so-called relational goods proportionally reduce more and more. Welfare doesn’t mean well – being”. If it is so, what may be nowadays the right definition for Development? And what are the action plans to successfully implement a complete Development in our societies?

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by Wilma Massucco

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