Measuring Progress towards Gross National Happiness: From GNH indicators to GNH national accounts

In: Gross National Happiness: Practice and Measurement: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gross National Happiness. Thimphu, Centre for Bhutan Studies 2008, pp. 15-49 . ISBN 978-99936-14-52-4

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Abstract

In sum, the GNH approach and practice not only offer highly positive potential solutions to the current global economic crisis, but its most effective agents and standard bearers are likely to be the younger generation whose stake in a sane, secure, sustainable, and balanced world is probably the greatest of any demographic group. Including GNH principles, practices, and examples in educational curricula, training our youth in the GNH measurement methods, and generally nurturing their participation in GNH deliberations and in a wider GNH movement may well be the most effective and productive possible investment in moving towards the realization of GNH in practice.