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The blog is on hold!

Sep 15, 2014

The Better Life Index blog has been migrated to the OECD Insights blog. Please visit oecdinsights.org/category/bli-2/ for all future posts.

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Netizens, Engagement and Empowerment

May 16, 2014

Is online engagement between citizens and government the way of the future? Watch this OECD 2014 Forum session and find out how the Better Life Index engages citizens.

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Reasons to be cheerful ....

May 15, 2014

Everyone has their own recipe for a better life, but do we have some shared favourite ingredients?

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Two revolutions for the price of one

May 7, 2014

How are our ideas on well-being affected by our life?

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Happiness pays

Mar 20, 2014

For World Happiness Day our guest author suggests that money can't buy you happiness but happiness may get you more money.

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Blog Archive

The blog is on hold!

Sep 15, 2014

Netizens, Engagement and Empowerment

May 16, 2014

Reasons to be cheerful ....

May 15, 2014

Two revolutions for the price of one

May 7, 2014

Happiness pays

Mar 20, 2014

Gender equality in the workplace

Mar 11, 2014

Education for well-being: Online discussion

Feb 19, 2014

Finance and enterprise affairs: Call for papers

Dec 2, 2013

Job Quality - It's not just about having a job

Nov 28, 2013

Bringing home the filet mignon

Nov 21, 2013

Were things really better back in my day?

Nov 15, 2013

How’s Life? – Focusing on people

Nov 5, 2013

The dilemma of in-work poverty

Nov 3, 2013

Breaching the gender gap

Oct 31, 2013

Visualise How Education Transforms Lives

Oct 14, 2013

Spread a little happiness

Oct 4, 2013

Skills for society

Sep 24, 2013

Economy of wellbeing: Having it all?

Jul 18, 2013

Making the shift from quantity to quality

Jul 4, 2013

Wellbeing and children

Jun 26, 2013

Could Big Data provide alternative measures of poverty and welfare?

Jun 21, 2013

Private bodies

Jun 14, 2013

In search of satisfaction

Jun 4, 2013

The Value of Data Visualisation

May 23, 2013

Community and Well-being Away from Home

May 15, 2013

Making education pay

May 13, 2013

“Working to live, or living to work?”

May 3, 2013

Creating equitable and sustainable well-being

Apr 22, 2013

Making statistics and everyone count

Apr 11, 2013

What makes for a better life?

Mar 29, 2013

How to measure happiness and why it matters

Mar 22, 2013

Valuing Relationships

Mar 15, 2013

Invisible Women: Making Women Count

Mar 8, 2013

Homo Economicus

Feb 26, 2013

You spoke, we listened

Feb 15, 2013

The cost of mental illness

Feb 8, 2013

The European Experience in the Great Recession

Feb 1, 2013

The fair society and its enemies

Jan 22, 2013

Keeping the wolf from the door

Jan 16, 2013

New Year Resolutions

Jan 14, 2013

Jobs, Wellbeing, and GDP Make a Powerful Combination

Dec 21, 2012

Gender equality: what’s in a stereotype?

Dec 14, 2012

Objective vs perceived reality check: Guadalajara

Dec 7, 2012

Well-being goals for all

Nov 23, 2012

Happiness as a Business Model

Nov 16, 2012

The Measurement Revolution has already started

Nov 12, 2012

Quality of life is essential to Corporate Social Responsibility

Nov 2, 2012

How respecting rules can lead to a better life

Oct 26, 2012

The Meaning of Better Lives

Oct 17, 2012

Well-being and the Art of Measuring the Invisible

Oct 12, 2012

Is there life on Mars?

Oct 5, 2012

The role of data in keeping governments accountable

Sep 28, 2012

High-tech ageing

Sep 21, 2012

Working towards happiness

Sep 14, 2012

Vote? No thanks!

Sep 7, 2012

Who's the worst?

Aug 28, 2012

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Aug 10, 2012

Crisis happinomics

Aug 3, 2012

Happiness on the podium

Jul 27, 2012

Are you feeling better?

Jul 20, 2012

Well-being and GDP: why we need them both

Jul 13, 2012

The arithmetick of green growth

Jul 6, 2012

The Happy Planet Index 2012

Jun 29, 2012

Healthy, Happy and Wise: Recipe for a Better Life?

Jun 22, 2012

Path to progress: Making every step count

Jun 15, 2012

Gender discrimination: a persistent threat to progress

Jun 8, 2012

It’s in the papers

Jun 5, 2012

Beyond averages: Better lives and inequality

May 11, 2012

Beyond GDP: Better Ways to Measure Better Lives

May 11, 2012