WISER: Well-being in a Sustainable Economy Revisited

将经济增长作为引导社会实现可持续高福祉的工具的重点越来越成问题。虽然国内生产总值增长正在放缓，但其环境和社会成本正在增加，因此，继续依赖国内生产总值增长需要在今世后代的福祉之间进行权衡。此外，研究表明，较高的GDP通常很难改善人们的主观幸福感。为了更好地支持政策选择，我们的项目旨在制定一个新的经济发展框架，提供基于证据和理论上合理的政策见解，说明如何在不牺牲未来福祉的情况下提高当代人的福祉（不让任何人落后）。我们将确定如何促进GDP增长和生产力增长并投资于福祉，重点关注协调经济增长和可持续高福祉的关系，同时不让任何人和地方落后。我们将通过明确考虑性别观点和弱势群体，分析这些关系在不同的子群体水平上是如何发挥作用的。该项目的多学科方法整合了来自不同学科的知识，将定量和定性技术相结合，以生成可靠的证据。我们的个案研究将使我们能够从世界不同地区，特别是非洲汲取重要的经验教训。此外，我们的政策建议的相关性将得到利益攸关方的见解和互动的支持。在福祉、可持续性和生产力的三重目标中，该项目寻找可能的双赢途径，建立一个新的经济发展框架，深入了解社会如何利用更高的生产力来实现更大的人类福祉。政策制定者将通过仪表板和绿色书籍得到帮助，这些工具为如何实现可持续增长和最大限度地提高福祉提供指导

The focus on economic growth as an instrument to lead societies towards sustainable high well-being is increasingly problematic. While Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is slowing, its environmental and social costs are increasing, such that continued reliance on GDP growth entails a trade-off between the well-being of current versus future generations. In addition, research shows that higher GDP generally hardly improves people’s subjective well-being. To better support policy options, our project aims to develop a new economic development framework that provides evidence-based and theoretically-sound policy insights on how to raise well-being of present generations(leaving no one behind) withoutsacrificing future well-being. We will identify how GDP growth and productivity growth can be promoted and invested in well-being, focusing on relationships that reconcile economic growth and sustainable high well-being while leaving no person and place behind. We will analyze how these relationships work at different subgroup levels, by explicitly considering gender perspectives and disadvantaged groups. The project’s multi-disciplinary approach integrates knowledge from different disciplines, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques to generate solid evidence. Our case studies will permit deriving important lessons from different regions of the world, Africa in particular. Moreover, the relevance of our policy recommendations will be supported by insights from and interaction with stakeholders. Within the triadic goals of well-being, sustainability, and productivity, the project looks for possible win-win-win pathways, producing a new economic development framework that provides insight into how societies can use greater productivity to aim at greater human well-being. Policymakers will be helped by means of a dashboard and green book, which provide guidance how to achieve sustainable growth and maximize well-being