Postcard from Bhutan: Gross National Happiness

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When you’re a small, landlocked mountain kingdom, wedged between the giants of China and India, with more than 70 percent of your population living in rural areas, 50 percent illiterate, and much of your budget coming from overseas aid and grants, you play to your strengths […]

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