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1-Robert F.Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures“everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

With Britain voting to leave the European Union,and GDP already predicted to slow as a result,it is now a timely moment to assess what he was referring to.

2-The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.

Many argue that it is a flawed concept.

It measures things that do not matter and miss things that do.

By most recent measures,the UK’s GDP has been the envy of the Western World,with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

If everything was going so so well,then why did over17million people vote for Brexit,despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?

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