In Bhutan, Happiness Index as Gauge for Social Ills

ASIA PACIFIC – JAN. 17, 2017

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Dasho Karma Ura, shown in Thimphu in September, has for more than two decades developed and fine-tuned Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness indicator. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times

THIMPHU, Bhutan — As a downpour settled into a thick fog outside, Dasho Karma Ura let his eyes flicker at the ceiling of a wood-paneled conference room and began expounding on the nature of happiness.

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