Development is about 'improvement'. However there have been different and often conflicting viewpoints on the improvement of 'what' and 'how' to improve. The diversity of positions has resulted in a multitude of metrics to track development, some more influential than others on policy. Alternative measures of development, while numerous, generally seek to nuance the connection between economic growth and human well-being. Because they maintain core notions of progress and, in some cases, economic growth seen in more mainstream models of development, they are less vehicles for transformation than continuations of thinking and action fundamentally at odds with the needs of CRD. These include the Measure of Economic Welfare , the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare , the Genuine Progress Indicator , the Adjusted Net Saving Index or the Genuine Savings Index , The Human Development Index , the Inequality-Adjusted Human
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