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Quality of life

Opinion & Features

Can quality of life be a superpower? Ask Finland

Street vendors waiting for customers at a street market outside the Pouyuen Vietnam factory, owned by Taiwanese shoemaker Pou Chen, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Dec 23, 2024.
Asean Business
PICTURES

‘Too hard’: Vietnam’s factory workers return to country life

The Taj Mahal amid heavy smog conditions in Agra, India, Nov 23, 2023. Despite an improvement in air quality in South Asia in 2022, the region continues to breathe the world’s most-polluted air, with its residents losing more than 3.5 years of life expectancy on average, the annual Air Quality Life Index warned.
ESG

South Asia air pollution fell in 2022, but remains major killer: report

It has been well-established that using gross domestic product, which values goods and services produced in an economy, as a metric to measure quality of life is woefully inadequate.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

In pursuit of a higher quality of life 

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