Challenges for Creating a Transnational Index From Secondary Sources: The World Love Index in the Making
This case focuses on the construction of the World Love Index, a new index built ad hoc on secondary
sources with the aim of showing, through transnational comparisons, the different levels of Social Love (SL)
present in different countries. The idea is part of the debate “Beyond GDP” which aims to develop indicators
of the progress of a society, taking into account the environmental and social aspects of well-being. Within
this framework, SL is considered both an important agent of cohesiveness in contemporary society and a