Gross National Happiness | Economic Development

The Gross National Product is an alternative way to measure economic progress and the effectiveness of government policies.

1. Gross National
Happiness
Economics
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Health
Mental
health
Healthy
days
Health
status

2. What is Gross National Happiness (GNH)?
❖Gross National
Happiness is a measure
of how happy a country’s
citizens are.
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3. Why measure happiness?
❖Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
as a measure of economic
performance is inadequate.
Anxiety
Loneliness
Safety
Depression
Well-
being
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4. Why measure happiness?
❖GDP ignores many things that
make people happy, e.g. health,
safety, good governance, life
satisfaction, etc.
❖Gross National Happiness is an
alternative way of assessing
economic performance and the
effectiveness of government
policies.
Anxiety
Loneliness
Safety
Depression
Well-
being
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5. ❖GNH Index is used to track the
happiness and well-being of a
country’s inhabitants.
❖It was developed in the 1970s
and popularised by the King of
Bhutan.
❖Bhutan is a small South Asian
country of fewer than 1 million
inhabitants.
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6. ❖Bhutan is situated in the Eastern
Himalayas between the Tibet
Autonomous Region of China in
the north and India in the south.
❖Bhutan’s system of government
is constitutional monarchy.
❖ The major religion in Bhutan is
Buddhism.
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7. GNH Index: The 4 Pillars
Good
governance
Environmental
preservation
Pillars
Sustainable socio-
economic
development
Cultural
preservation
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8. GNH Index: The 9 domains
Living standards
Ecological diversity
& resilience
Time use
Domains
Education
Good
governance
Psychological
well-being
Health
Community
vitality
Cultural diversity &
resilience
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