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The 46 pages that link to Gross domestic product, each with the reason it gives.

• Global value chainCompared with: GDP measures territorial production, not the full sequence of value contributions in a product.

• Social welfare functionCompared with: GDP totals production but does not by itself rank outcomes by distribution or individual well-being.

• DegrowthCompared with: Degrowth challenges its use as the primary measure of social progress.

• Economic developmentCompared with: GDP measures production, but omits many dimensions of well-being and institutional change.

• ProductivityCompared with: GDP measures total economic output, whereas productivity relates output to inputs.

• Capability approachCompared with: The approach challenges GDP as a stand-in for people’s actual opportunities.

• Human Development IndexCompared with: The HDI was designed to challenge GDP as a sufficient measure of development.

• Ecological economicsCompared with: It measures market production but does not directly account for ecological depletion or distribution.

• Domestic laborCompared with: GDP generally omits unpaid household services, making much domestic labor invisible in standard output measures.

• Reproductive laborCompared with: GDP generally excludes unpaid household services, leaving much reproductive labor outside its headline totals.

• Gross National HappinessCompared with: It measures production, while Gross National Happiness also assesses social and environmental conditions.

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentCompared with: OECD well-being work highlights what GDP omits from assessments of social progress.

• Feminist EconomicsCompared with: GDP's production boundary omits much unpaid household labor and care.

• Balance of tradeCompared with: GDP measures domestic production, whereas the trade balance measures net cross-border sales.

• Happiness economicsCompared with: GDP tracks production, while happiness economics asks whether that production improves lived well-being.

• Scientific Outlook on DevelopmentCompared with: The principle challenged reliance on GDP growth as the sole measure of development.

• Stock market indexCompared with: GDP measures economic output, while stock indexes measure selected share prices or returns.

• Development studiesCompared with: It is a familiar growth measure that misses distribution and many dimensions of well-being.

• AffluenzaCompared with: Economic growth can rise without capturing the well-being concerns affluenza highlights.

• Angus DeatonCompared with: Deaton argued that GDP growth alone cannot establish whether ordinary people’s lives improve.

• Global developmentCompared with: GDP measures economic production, not the full range of social conditions development seeks to improve.