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Gross national happiness

U.N. summit focuses on how to improve global happiness

Health & Medicine

The United Nations convened on Monday to discuss a topic that isn’t usually on their agenda: happiness. Throughout the day, speakers at the U.N. put forward their thoughts on how to measure and improve well-being around the world.

How governments can create policies that promote happiness

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How Should We Judge our Economy?

Arts, Culture & Media

Is Happiness More Important than GDP?

Measuring Happiness in Victoria, British Columbia

Health & Medicine
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The Buddha is One…and Zeros

In 1999, the King of Bhutan announced that television and the internet would be allowed in the country as part of the kingdom’s goal of pursuing “gross national happiness.” Despite the fact that not all of the 700,000 or so residents ?most of them rural ?

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Bhutan’s first democratic election

Global Politics

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with author Brook Larmer about the upcoming democratic election in Bhutan – the country’s first-ever; Larmer’s article, “Bhutan’s Enlightened Experiment,” appears in this month’s National Geographic.

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