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Featured Link, 2009.09: Institute of Wellbeing
Our featured website link for September 2009 is the Institute of Wellbeing, home to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW).
As their site highlights, wellbeing is not just about our economic wellbeing, based as this is on centuries-old practices of gauging national progress based solely on financial and economic indicators. In today's world of government and business policy, there is a distinct need for a more balanced system of national accounts that also looks at non-economic factors. The Institute of Wellbeing — and the CIW within it — is gaining international attention as a showcase for this type of thinking.
The Foundation has been a fan of the CIW since its first early days, and we're pleased to see that the initiative has recently been stimulated through the release of the first report in June of this year (click to visit How are Canadians REALLY doing?), and through the pending work on the remaining indicator areas.
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