Gallup World Path: Macroeconomics

Gallup employs a unique approach to understanding and improving wellbeing by focusing on the importance of metrics and continuous monitoring. The Gallup World Path: Macroeconomics highlights this approach. The constituent parts of the path comprise a pattern of relationships. The model provides the framework Gallup researchers believe societies must follow to thrive.

The Gallup World Path: Macroeconomics highlights the link between every resident's individual contribution and the community's or country's overall success. The heart of the path is wellbeing. Just as great workplaces must deliberately create conditions to produce engaged employees and customers, communities must deliberately promote wellbeing to attract the best talent and promote quality GDP growth. As engaged employees and customers make growth and prosperity possible for companies, engaged residents do the same for their communities.

The fundamental needs of a community's residents, such as food and shelter, form the early steps of the path, followed by higher order needs such as good jobs and wellbeing. Many communities succeed at addressing basic needs, but they fail in achieving the latter steps of the path.

The Gallup World Path: Macroeconomics measures interconnected components regarding law and order, food and shelter, institutions and infrastructure, good jobs, wellbeing, and brain gain in a society. These components are composed of 19 indexes that correlate with real-world outcomes.

• Law and Order measures the security level residents report for themselves and their families. It gauges respondents' sense of personal security and the incidence of crime.
• Food and Shelter measures the capability people have to meet their basic needs for food and shelter. This assessment serves as an effective summary measure and indicator of the prevalence of poverty across individuals in a group, country, or region.
• Institutions and Infrastructure measures confidence in key institutions including the military, the judicial system, the national government, and the honesty of elections and evaluates infrastructure, including roads, education, environment, healthcare, and housing.
• Good Jobs measures the existence and quality of work and work life. The availability of good jobs correlates with higher wellbeing.
• Wellbeing measures the interconnected elements that contribute to health, happiness, and productivity including work, social networks, personal economics, personal health, and citizen engagement.
• Brain Gain reflects a city's or country's ability to attract and retain talented people whose exceptional gifts and knowledge create new business and new jobs to help improve that city's or country's economy.
• Quality GDP Growth reflects sustainable growth in a city's or country's overall economic output.

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