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Health 'poverty' not captured in the famous GDP

One of GDP’s major flaws is its inability to “measure” services. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a metric used to gauge a country’s economic success. Countries are rated based on how much of it they have. 

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