gross national happiness

alternative Gross National Happiness

1. uncountableA particular indicator of a country's quality of life, developed in Bhutan in the 1970s.

   The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago.

   2011 May 24, Frank Jordans, “USA comes up a bit short in global Better Life Index”, in USA Today, retrieved 28 Jun 2011

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   King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the gross national happiness, and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content.

   1998 December 21, Tim McGirk, “Mystery in the Hills”, in Time

   Kannemann is working with three other U.S. universities to build a methodology that can be exported to other countries. Each country can then rank itself, as Britain will be doing, on a scale of gross national happiness.

   2005 March 15, Michael Johnson, “Meanwhile: Looking for happiness in all the wrong places”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jun 2011

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of gross national happiness.