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Thu 07 Jul 2008More to a country's wellbeing than economic success
The idea of Gross National Happiness has great visionary and symbolic power, writes Maureen Gaffney
IN 1972, the little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan did a very radical and wise thing. The king established a Gross National Happiness programme, intended to be a more accurate measure of national wellbeing than GDP, or indeed GNP, the primary indicators of social wellbeing in western nations.
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