Measuring prosperity by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) output alone has never told the full story of rural life. For Canada's smaller communities, the time has come to build a development framework worthy of their complexity.

Many reports on the exit of Kimberly-Clark have focused on the GDP side of the story rather than the sustainability aspect.

Nigeria with Africa’s largest youth population and a GDP figure of 397.3 billion USD in 2018 ahead of South Africa’s 368.3 billion USD...