Gross national happiness

With suggested itineraries and ideas for alternative destinations, here's everything you need to plan your dream trip to the Himalayan region.

After creating a buzz at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in January, Jacinda Ardern's government has outlined plans for the country’s well-being budget.

Happy and smiling school students of the eastern Bhutan truly revealing Gross National Happiness.

As we have already explored in module one, we need to learn to distinguish between and shift from quantitative growth to qualitative growth. Our current economic system is designed to maximize the…

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Gross National Happiness is more important than gross National Product By the Great Forth King of Bhutan

Bhutan, Gross National Happiness (GNH)

Stop putting off your happiness until you achieve all your goals.

The tiny, remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan first invented the idea of using happiness as a measure of good governance – an idea its superpower neighbour China has now borrowed.

Gross National Happiness - Bhutan, a Limited Edition Photography by Lisa Kristine. Novices depart a monastery at Paro Dzong.The Gross National Happiness (GNH) of two novices sends them leaping as they exit a class. Bhutan’s measurement of GNH stands in direct contrast to Western culture’s barometer of a country’s strength, the Gross National Product (GNP). Upholding Bhutan’s “table of happiness,” are four, sturdy legs: cultural and spiritual preservation, socio-economic development…