7 Amendments of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the financial, economic and social crisis demonstrates that an economic strategy based purely on GDP does not make it possible to develop a sustainable model,
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Takes the view that the Strategy 2020 objectives cannot be attained by using GDP alone as a yardstick;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. The committee bBelieves that GDP suffers from many shortcomings - for example, it does not record unemployment, underemployment, inequalities, life expectancy, the quality of the education and health systems or environmental disasters - particularly bearing in mind the development model followed as a dogma by our economies, aimed first and foremost at maximum profit. It stresses that GDP fails to take into account the contribution of public services, that of the whole range of economic and social activities (domestic work, voluntary work, illegal activities ...). The use and management of the statistical indicators for an economy reflect the type of economic development followed by each society. In the dominant development model applied until now, the quality of life, well-being of citizens and environmental changessustainable development play a secondary role.;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that the Commission should add alternative indicators to the conventional instruments for assessing progress towards the attainment of the objectives formulated in the EU 2020 Strategy;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers that the objective of innovation cannot be attained unless it is accompanied by the establishment of indicators by means of which to define and assess an environment conducive to innovation;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. The committeeBelieves nevertheless believes that challenging GDP's monopoly as a statistical indicator guiding economic policiesbased on the measure of the market output of an economy requires radical changes to the system for planning and implementing economic and social policies, in addition to the above actions, so as to take account of both environmental and social parameters.;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to measure ‘coping with income’ and the degree to which people are living well in terms of financial and material assets, including minimum income, indebtedness, quality of housingand accessibility of housing, transport and public services and the adequacy of social security systems;