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429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?

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Amsterdam in the Netherlands - Is It Doing Well?

We have to build more houses. That's not something that we can solve overnight. So how could we say that our city is doing well? Yet another way in which g d p is not a very useful measure. It actually shows inequality. I was surprised to see c o two omissions in the netherlands aren't much lower to day than in nineteen ninety. Again, perhaps wrongly think of amsterdam ind the netherlands as pretty progressive when it comes to clean energy and pollution and so on....

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