Politics of Happiness

As Joanne [pointed:showed] out only one country tiny little Bhutan [wedged:weight] between China and India has adopted the gross national happiness as the central index of government policy and [actually:known] has had a good deal of success in education and in health and in economic growth and in environmental preservation and they have rather sophisticated way of [measuring:weighing] the effects of different policies on people's happiness but they're the only [country:countries] to go that far but you're now beginning to get other countries interested enough to do kind of white paper [policy:policing] analyses about whether happiness research what effects would it have we used it more for public policy you're beginning to get to countries like Australia, [France:Finland] , Great Britain that are considering pushing regular statistics on happiness so it's beginning to become a subject of greater interest for policymakers and legislators and different advanced countries.