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Measures of Gross National Happiness

Happiness is rising on the political agenda and this calls for measures of how well nations perform in creating great happiness for a great number, analogous to measures of success in creating wealth, such as GDP. Happiness is defined as subjective enjoyment of one’s life as-a-whole and this can be measured using self-reports. Question on happiness are currently used in large scale surveys of t...

Food Security and Gross National Happiness

This paper reconsiders the concept of food security to reflect Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness framework. Through various case studies relating to people’s food security, including production, circulation and consumption, it analyses factors that would affect GNH indicators. By comparing the conventional concept of food security with the GNH framework, the paper suggests that while the conven...

#iamhappybecause: Gross National Happiness through Twitter analysis and big data

Article history: Received 4 September 2014 Received in revised form 24 June 2015 Accepted 28 June 2015 Available online 9 July 2015 The prominence of social media has contributed to open information access for the researchers. With voluntary information sharing structure of Twitter, user disposition and sentiment analyses can be performed for determining the emotional well-being of the citizens...

Gross national happiness and health: lessons from Bhutan

Editorials 514 Bhutan was the first country in the world to pursue happiness as a state policy. The Bhutanese concept of happiness is deeper than the common meaning of happiness in industrialized countries. The philosophy of gross national happiness has several dimensions: it is holistic, recognizing people's spiritual, material, physical or social needs; it emphasizes balanced progress; it vie...

ALTERNATIVES TO GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT A Critical Survey