The Essence of Sustainable Development

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• In developed countries, large portions of public-listed corporations are now owned by pension/mutual funds investing people’s retirement funds. This calls for a new definition of performance and long-term shareholder interests.
• It’s no longer enough to rely on low costs or governme...

While the world is getting better at measuring things, there is still no fail-safe way to include a country's environmental record into its competitiveness core. Nor is there a way to measure if and how competitiveness makes people happy.

However, comparing the competitiveness of those eco...