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"Bhutan was the last nation in the world to introduce television in 1999. Recently they banned a number of channels including international wrestling and MTV, which they felt did little to promote happiness." --- In [email protected], "sunny" <ambon@...> wrote: > > Apakah asalanya Happy Index ini bukan berasal dari Bhutan? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jusfiq > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:46 AM > Subject: [proletar] France24: OECD launches happiness index > > > > > Published on FRANCE 24 (http://www.france24.com/en) > > Home > OECD launches happiness index > OECD launches happiness index > By blade > Created 24/05/2011 - 11:23 > > A so-called "happiness index" to measure wellbeing and perceptions of > living conditions came into life at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation > and Development on Tuesday. > > The index covers 11 areas: housing, incomes, employment, social > relationships, education, the environment, the administration of > institutions, health, general satisfaction, security and the balance between > work and family. > > The head of statistics at the OECD, Martine Durand, said that the idea was > to measure more closely matters which people thought were important to them. > > The index is intended to enable people in the 34 OECD member countries to > compare their countries according to criteria which they think are important, > Durand said. > > The OECD hopes soon to make the index applicable to other countries, > beginning with emerging economies such as Brazil. > > The index is the first concrete result of a report by former Nobel > economics prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz, OECD officials said. > > The index comes into being as the Paris-based OECD celebrates its 50th > anniversary and immediately before a summit of Group of Eight (G8) leaders in > Deauville, northern France. > > France holds the presidency of the G8, and in September 2009 a commission > headed by Stiglitz submitted to Sarkozy proposals for improving the way > growth is measured to overcome shortcomings in the main measure of growth, > the index of gross domestic product (GDP). > > The OECD has worked for some years on ways of calculating a wellbeing index > to complement the GDP and other indicators. > > * AFP > * Lifestyle > > Source URL: > http://www.france24.com/en/20110524-oecd-launches-happiness-index > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
