‘Wellbeing is shown in our appearance, the food we eat, what we wear, and what we buy’: Embodying wellbeing in Ghana

In the post war era, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been extensively used as the primary indicator of population wellbeing. More recently, population wellbeing has increasingly been seen as more than merely the value of economic activity undertaken within a given period of time. Rather, several alternative measures have been proposed to correct some of the weaknesses of GDP. Yet these measures focus primarily on countries in the so-called …