Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico’s president wants to track the happiness of the Mexican people instead of the Gross Domestic Product

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported on Thursday that he is working to develop an index that measures the well-being of the population, an alternative to measuring the Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ), and which, among other parameters, will include the degree of happiness of the Mexican people.

At a press conference, the head of the Federal Executive indicated that he is preparing this new index because in the return to the new normality after the COVID- 19 pandemic, it cannot continue to be measured in the same way that it has been done.

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