Looking on the bright side

Looking on the bright side

Measuring progress with well-being

Official data suggest that people in the UK have become less anxious over the past three years, and are more satisfied with their lives than the inhabitants of most, though not all, major economies. Frontier’s Chairman Gus O’Donnell, who chaired the Legatum Institute’s 2014 commission of inquiry into well-being measures, looks into the evidence and asks what impact it will have on the general election. 

Looking on the bright side: measuring progress with well-being