New Economics Foundation

New Economics Foundation is an independent UK think tank claiming to speak for a progressive view of welfare economics and environmentalism. They famously ran the Jubilee 200 campaign for an end to debt in the developing world. NEF have also developed the Happy Planet Index intended to challenge existing indices of a state's success, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Human Development Index (HDI).

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