Sentences with phrase «gross national»

The gross national product in 1940 was just over $ 100 billion.

Real estate is big business, affecting 20 percent of the gross national product, and it is one of the leading economic indicators, along with job data and consumer confidence indexes.

More than 80 percent of American businesses are family - owned, according to figures gathered by the University of Vermont, and they account for 57 percent of the gross national product.

The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australia's aid groups, has published a detailed analysis, saying Australia's aid contribution as a share of gross national income in 2017 - 18 will be 0.22 per cent, «once again plunging aid to new all - time low levels of generosity» and failing to match - up to the reality of global challenges, like climate change, food crises and the insecurity faced by displaced people.

Socioeconomic, religious, spiritual and health factors associated with symptoms of common mental disorders: a cross-sectional secondary analysis of data from Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Study, 2015

To ensure that FIAP is fully funded, the federal government increases its foreign aid from 0.26 per cent of gross national income to 0.7 per cent.

If our government really wants to give the term «seachange» some meaning and develop a comprehensible, sustainable, and respectful foreign policy look how Bhutan has evolved from GNP and GDP ($ $ $ $ product and services) to the development of indicators for Gross National Happiness (GNH).

Whether it's B Corps or Gross National Happiness, there are countless smart ideas out there for how to do that.

With these three words, Karma Tshiteem, Secretary of the Bhutan Gross National Happiness Commission, ended his brief description of Bhutan's distinctive approach to economic development.

Bhutan is unique for its policy of Gross National Happiness, a measure which balances economic growth with environmental conservation and the wellbeing of its people.

The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.

Other versions of this concept include the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan's championing of Gross National Happiness as an alternative measure of progress, and the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index, which measures both overall human happiness and ecological sustainability.

Gross National Happiness It's often been noted that there is nothing wrong with GDP in and of itself, it's just that it has been elevated from a simple measure of overall economic activity into something it was never intended to be — a proxy metric for our collective well - being.

TreeHugger has written about these alternatives and supplements to GDP a number of times — The Genuine Progress Indicator, Gross National Happiness, and others — so I won't rehash them.

Gross National Product (GNP)- Gross National Product is the monetary value of all goods and services produced in a nation's economy, including income generated abroad by domestic residents, but without income generated by foreigners.

In our teachings we have some clear direction: our intention is Minobimaatisiiwin, a spiritual, mental, physical and emotional happiness — sort of an Anishinaabe version of Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index.

The Pope does not stint in his condemnation of worshiping gross national product over human life and health.

In Bhutan, we have Gross National Happiness (GNH).

The Gross National Income per capita has skyrocketed from $ 440 in 2000 to $ 1,700 today.

That is quite befitting of the country's emphasis and priority for environmental protection that draws its essence from its guiding philosophy of Gross National [continue reading...]

That means the pledge contributes towards the UK's commitment to use 0.7 per cent of its gross national income for overseas development assistance.

Bhutan pioneered the concept of Gross National Happiness some 35 [continue reading...]

The Netherlands is an example of a country highly susceptible to both sea - level rise and river flooding because 55 % of its territory is below sea level where 60 % of its population lives and 65 % of its Gross National Product (GNP) is produced.

In its last Assessment Report on the impacts of climate change shows that 55 % of Netherlands is below sea level in this area and that 65 % of the gross national product is produced.

«This grant - based finance must be predictable, sustainable, transparent, new and additional — on top of developed country commitments to deliver 0.7 percent of their Gross National Income as Overseas Development Assistance,» the declaration states.

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I have been really touched by the new King of Bhutan instituting «Gross National Happiness» as the measure of the country's «wealth» and state — from the individual citizen level to the national / state level.

The Officiating Secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission signed the FA in the presence of the EU Ambassador to Bhutan, [continue reading...]

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Bhutan is renowned for espousing Gross National Happiness but now the isolated Himalayan nation is also looking to become known as a world leader in organic farming.

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Veenhoven, Ruut (2007): Measures of Gross National Happiness.

I'm sure they'll have some really illuminating stuff, as I've seen them address the idea of «Gross National Happiness» rather than GDP: evaluating contentment and satisfaction beyond the raw numbers.

This grant - based finance must be predictable, sustainable, transparent, new and additional — on top of developed country commitments to deliver 0.7 percent of their gross national income as overseas development assistance.

In 1991, 44 percent of children in the world's low - income countries (with gross national incomes under $ 1,000 per capita) completed primary school.

Gross National Happiness has lots of cache in the environmental and social justice community, but how is Bhutan actually calculating it and how well are they doing?

The ideas and scientific research that is being done around the World on «happiness» and sub-topics (e.g. Gross National Happiness) is extremely encouraging.

A weeklong conference on the Bhutan - born concept of Gross National Happiness concludes on Thursday in Bangkok.

Dr. Stiglitz's column on the report echoes many ideas promoted by a more touchy - feely crowd that has long been pushing for such shifts, a group whose members range from Herman Daly to Jigmi Thinley, whom I met while writing my 2005 article on «gross national happiness» and is Bhutan's first elected prime minister.

In 2007 it gave nearly $ 22 billion in aid, which represented 0.18 percent of its gross national income, according to statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Recognizing problems attending a growth - driven economic sprint in other developing countries, in the early 1970's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to make his nation's priority not its G.D.P. but its G.N.H., or gross national happiness.

This is just a quick Labor Day weekend look back at a story I wrote in 2005 assessing Bhutan's effort to adopt gross national happiness as its main income and perceptions of happiness.

I met Tshewang in 2005 when he was part of a Bhutanese delegation that came to Nova Scotia for a workshop on the country's experiment with «gross national happiness.»

[ANDY REVKIN says: I'm a big fan of finding new means of measuring «progress,» and explored Gross National Happiness a couple of years ago.

For example, I am currently reading up on the principles of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which was initially sketched out by the 4th King of Bhutan as means to measure «development» in terms other than GNP.

James Fahn, the executive director of the Internews Earth Journalism Network (featured here before), recently returned from a visit with other environmental journalists to Bhutan, where efforts to attain «gross national happiness» are running into obstacles as the country strives for democracy, prosperity and environmental protection.

For an exploration of other social experiments aimed at shifting from growth as a measure of progress, check out my 2005 story on Bhutan's experiment with «gross national happiness.»

Six pins inspired by An Incomplete Protest feature designs inspired by Donald Moffett, Pro-Arts Inc., Gross National Product, and others.

Bhutan Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, is a small country in the Himalayans, tucked between China and India, which measures Gross National Happiness instead of Gross National Product.

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan even measures its country's prosperity by its «gross national happiness» (GNH), measuring the spiritual, physical, social and environmental health and happiness of its citizens and natural environment.