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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon who is on an India trip Friday met Meira Kumar during which the Lok Sabha speaker asked him to involve developing countries in the consultation process with regard to the millennium development goals.


Aside from tiny Bhutan and their pursuit of Gross National Happiness, every country bases economic policy on the pursuit of endless GDP growth, and companies are right there with them. But common sense tells us that nothing can grow forever, and thus national and corporate-level goals alike have a sizeable blind spot.


A recent World Bank report has revealed that economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa remains strong and is poised for a lift-off after growing at 4.9 percent in 2011, just shy of the pre-crisis average of 5 percent.

When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region.

The post-2015 millennium development goals must focus on sustainability, equity and reaching the poorest of the poor

The charity's Scottish arm has used measures including health, transport, family life and employment to evaluate quality of life

This is the text of Shdow Treasurer Joe Hockey's speech to the Institute of economic affairs in London.


While many African countries have registered significant advances during the past decade, overall the continent will miss 2015 goals by a wide margin at the current rate.



New Philanthropy Capital has created a tool that helps charities prove that the work they do is worth funding


Bulgaria and Yemen lead the world in suffering

UNDP economic advisor Roberto Tibana says Luapula Province is not doing well and is least in human development compared to other provinces in the country.


The suffering index measures respondents' perceptions of where they stand on a ladder scale with steps numbered from 0 to 10, where "0" represents the worst possible life.



As one of the few students among the bevy of diplomats and world leaders attending the United Nation's high-level meeting on wellness and happiness last Monday, I wasn't sure how I or my fellow peers fit into the discussion.

Despite many successes in creating a more integrated and stable global economy, a new report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability – Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing – recognizes the current global order’s failure, even inability, to implement the drastic changes needed for true “sustainability.”


The Asian nation of Bhutan believes it has found a good way to gauge wellbeing.


Stronger yet was the correlation between development indicators like the Human Development Index and the literacy rate with litigation rates.


The 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report estimates that if women's labour force participation rates were raised to 70 per cent..

Economists and development experts are meeting at the United Nations in New York to discuss whether improving happiness is just as important as increasing gross national product (GNP) for developing countries.

If happiness could be measured the way a country's economic performance is measured in terms of gross national product or gross domestic product, then Malaysia would be the world's 51st happiest country.

Despite many successes in creating a more integrated and stable global economy, a new report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability – Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing – recognizes the current global order’s failure, even inability, to implement the drastic changes needed for true “sustainability.”


What started in Bhutan is coming to a government near you

Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan nation which tops Asia in the United Nations' First World Happiness Report, convened the meeting seeking to develop a new economic model based on principles of happiness and well being.


As Ryback explains, the meeting was approved in a UN resolution last year recognizing that “the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal” and “the gross domestic product [GDP] does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of peopl.


Today the United Nations will discuss happiness.


By Michael Astor AP AP Should happiness figure in a nation's bottom line?


The feelgood factor has not yet reached the leader of Bhutan, the country that brought the world the National Happiness Index. But the Himalayan kingdom's campaign to put gross national happiness alongside gross domestic product is starting to sway ...


Happiness research is now one of the hottest fields in development economics, thanks to Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index (GNH), which replaces the traditional Gross National Product (GDP) as gauge of national progress.


The faster we cut down forests and haul in fish stocks to extinction, the more GDP grows.

On Monday at the UN, the Prime Minister of Bhutan is convening a summit titled Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm. The idea is to advance a movement to get the world's leaders to think differently about how they measure success.


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