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Bhutan to Measure Happiness

Tiny nation calculates its Gross National Happiness

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 22, 2008 10:31 AM CDT

(Newser) – The king of Bhutan decided 20 years ago to start measuring his people's well-being—dubbed Gross National Happiness—but he never quite figured out how to quantify the national mood. With the Bhutan's first democratic election on Monday, and modernization transforming the long-isolated country, a...   Read full story »

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