New Zealand Prioritising GROSS NATIONAL WELLBEING

We usually think of a country’s wealth or capital in terms of its financial bottom line, it’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But New Zealand (NZ) has challenged the world to assess wealth in terms of a very different commodity, it’s Gross National Wellbeing.

To Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the purpose of government spending is to ensure the health and life satisfaction of it’s citizens. Jacinda believes that wealth or economic growth is not the metric by which a country’s