The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

South African researchers at the international AIDS conference in Vienna,Austria have announced major progress in the fight against the disease.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Stephen Thode at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania says progress in the housing market will be limited until the job market gets better.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Experts credit the good news in the report at least in part to prevention programs, not just the natural progress of the epidemic.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

"Our brave men and women are making steady progress against the deadly foe and are doing so at great risk to their lives.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

My parents were angry at the lack of progress in my medical studies.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

He said Americans now facing grave problems need to work together, tap their inner resolve, and seek progress one step at a time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

"And I think that the fact it is making progress at the moment and yielding results already shows that that is the case.

VOA: standard.2009.07.22

He wants other countries to follow France's example in looking at less materialistic indicators of progress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

At a White House event saluting service organizations, the president said with Iraq's progress comes responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

France is not the first country to look at the non-material aspects of progress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Speaking to a packed chamber at Stormont, the Northern Ireland Assembly, Hillary Clinton praised lawmakers for progress made in a long and often arduous peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"Anybody who talks repeal of the health care reform at this point is asking to stop a lot of progress that should be done and is already in place."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The target pledges by the world's top-two carbon emitters are seen as hopeful signs for progress at Copenhagen, although a final package for global greenhouse gas reduction remains in doubt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

We do not have the choice,he said. Mr.Sarkozy's remarks coincided with the publication of a new report by two Nobel economists, Joseph Stiglitz and Armatya Sen, that looks at non-traditional ways at measuring social progress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"Our team is continuing to make progress and looking at a plan to make the legacy cauldron more accessible to those who would like to come down and take pictures or get a better vantage point to it."

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

At a recent discussion about illegal drugs at the James A.Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, DEA intelligence chief for the Houston sector,Gary Hale, said one sign of progress is that the cartels are seeking other sources of income, with drugs comprising only about "What does that mean?

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"This conference gives us all an opportunity to reignite its path to progress by working as a team with Haiti at the helm to advance a comprehensive, long-term strategy for Haiti's growth, by coordinating hemispheric and international efforts, by targeting clear goals, by setting benchmarks to gauge our progress, and deploying our diverse skills and resources efficiently and effectively."

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02