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Former World Bank director, Enrique Rueda-Sabater has written a report which challenges the traditional ways of measuring economic success. Mr Rueda-Sabater of the Boston Consulting Group says it's important to measure how economic growth is of immediate benefit to the population. He has applied more than 40 indicators to 149 countries examining how countries perform in converting their Gross Domestic Product growth into improvements in well-being for their citizens. And there were some interesting results. Ethiopia holds the top spot when it comes to recent progress in well-being - and there are similar gains in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. (Picture - Ethiopia supporter celebrates during a football match in 2013. Credit: Simon Maina /AFP/Getty Images & a newspaper seller in Kigali, Rwanda. Credit: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)
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