to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution
measured by the Gini
index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in we
index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development
Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in we
Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (
measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National
Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website
David Cameron, for instance, has absorbed the NEF's nonsense, and is set to create a «
happiness index «to rival the UK's economic performance
measure, GDP.
As pointed out before on this blog, even our private, emotional lives are not beyond the reach of the state, which has grown attached to the «
happiness agenda» — the idea that a government's performance is better
measured by a measurement of «subjective sense of well - being» rather than economic
indices such as GDP.
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 sustai
Happiness as an alternative
measure of progress, and the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet
Index, which
measures both overall human
happiness and ecological sustai
happiness and ecological sustainability.