Index ini baru saja diumumkan oleh raja Bhuthan, kalau tak salah tahun lalu.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jusfiq To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:14 PM Subject: [proletar] Re: France24: OECD launches happiness index Saya kutip dari: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4782636.stm "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] > [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/
