In Bhutan, Forget GDP and Try Gross National Happiness Instead
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Show Notes
Karma Ura, President of the The Centre for Bhutan Studies, discusses the various aspects of Gross National Happiness:
- How and why GNH came about;
- How GNH implemented in popular fabric;
- Challenges in implementation;
- Its meaning in today's age;
- Faults with GDP;
- How GNH overcomes these faults;
- The role of money and economic value - position in GNH index;
- How GNH affects policy;
- GNH's eight major contributors to happiness;
- Nebulous - problems therein;
- Modernity creeping into Bhutan - challenges.
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