from Moving Forward on the Happiness Initiative.
The United Nations’ General Assembly adopted a resolution calling the pursuit of happiness “a fundamental human goal” and requesting member nations to “give more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development.” The resolution declared “GDP was not designed to and does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people in a country.
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The [Seattle] Happiness Initiative team finds the project an exciting and effective way to assess community well-being, engage citizens and improve both personal happiness and public policy. It leads to the kinds of broad conversations and policy actions that are implied by the UN resolution. It starts with a survey anyone can take, based on nine “domains” of happiness identified by Bhutan.
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