Shri Narendra Modi said there is a need to consider tigers as India's “natural capital” and to define conservation as a means to achieve development, rather than considering it to be anti-growth.

A blog by Kevin Mumford, an associate professor of Economics at Purdue University, discusses how measuring national wealth can serve as a complement to GDP.

World Bank Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, writes in this blog that economic growth needs to be inclusive and sustainable, include access to energy, responsible resource management, and good governance.