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Doha Climate Change Conference l Gross national happiness in Bhutan: the big idea from a tiny state that could change the world
03 December 2012 | bhutan, climate change, gdp, happiness, well-being measurementsBhutan measures prosperity by gauging its citizens' happiness levels, not the GDP. Now its ideas are attracting interest at the UN climate change conference in Doha. Since 1971, Bhutan has rejected...
Lessons Learned from Assessing Governance: Towards Inclusive Democracies and Development in Asia
08 May 2012 | asia pacific, bhutan, china, indonesia, papi, vietnamThe “Experts’ Round-table and South-South Exchange Forum” was organized to highlight the experiences of a number of countries in Asia in conducting democratic governance assessments, many of which...
Is Happiness Just As Important As GNP? And How Do You Measure It?
10 April 2012 | bhutan, commentary, mdgs, methodology, well-beingEconomists and development experts are meeting at the United Nations in New York to discuss whether improving happiness is just as important as increasing gross national product (GNP) for developing...
UN Discusses Creation Of Gross National Happiness : NPR
10 April 2012 | bhutan, undp-supported, well-beingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Should happiness figure in a nation's bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness? Bhutan's Prime Minister Jigmi Y....
Meghalaya to replicate Bhutan’s GNP mode
06 March 2012 | asia pacific, bhutan, happiness, india, undp-supported, well-beingThe White House has unveiled a plan to create a “Bill of Rights” for consumer privacy on the Internet, and announced that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to comply when consumers choose to...
Bhutan Prime Minister Explains Metric of 'Gross National Happiness (The Record, 29 Sept 2010)
29 September 2010 | asia pacific, bhutan, press coverage, undp-supported, well-beingForget gross national product. The prime minister of Bhutan says a nation should measure itself by its gross national happiness. Jigmi Y. Thinley spoke about his country’s unusual metric to about 450...
Training on Media Development Indicators in Bhutan
18 March 2010 | asia pacific, bhutan, event, media, training, undp-supportedOn 2-6 March 2010, a training workshop was held on the Media Development Indicator (MDI) Framework in close collaboration with the Department of Information and Media (DOIM) as well as the UNDP...
Bhutan: Planning for happiness
11 February 2010 | asia pacific, bhutan, index, undp-supportedMaximization of ‘Gross National Happiness’ (GNH) is the ultimate goal of development in Bhutan, as measured by the GNH Index. But how to translate the GNH vision into practice? The...