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Quality of life

Opinion & Features

Can quality of life be a superpower? Ask Finland

Bank of Finland governor Olli Rehn calls on all of Europe to ‘get its act together’

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

TREADING a familiar path for women in rural Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Hiep found a factory job in dynamic Ho Chi Minh City and spent 16 years helping make shoes for Western brands such as Adidas and Nike.

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

A SURPRISE improvement in air quality in South Asia in 2022 drove a decline in global pollution, with favourable weather a likely factor, a new report said on Wednesday (Aug 28).

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 

It is important to identify and understand the non-market or intangible indicators that constitute an acceptable quality of life to the populace

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