Richard Samans is Special Advisor to the United Nations Economist Network, Senior Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies and Nonresident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution. He is a former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and coauthor of the referenced paper, Progressing Beyond GDP: Towards a Multidimensional Living Standards Index (MLSI) and Integrated Headline Measure of Gross National Sustainable Development (GNSD).
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