In France,Mr.Sarkozy says focusing too much on gross domestic product as the main measure of prosperity contributed to the financial crisis.

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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.

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