The French president Nicolas Sarkozy has backed a report which urges governments to stop using GDP as the primary measure of progress.
The report from a group of economists said gross domestic product was treated too often as the only statistic worth focusing on.
'GDP statistics were introduced to measure market economic activity. But they are increasingly thought of as a measure of societal well-being, which they are not,' the report's authors wrote.
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