Lessons from the happiest place on earth

By Nick Abrahams
Updated September 18 2017 - 1:29pm, first published 9:58am
Spinning a prayer wheel helps accumulate wisdom and good karma in Bhutan??  Nick Abrahams
Spinning a prayer wheel helps accumulate wisdom and good karma in Bhutan?? Nick Abrahams
70 per cent of Bhutan??????s fruit and vegetables is organic and the government target is 100 per cent??  Nick Abrahams
70 per cent of Bhutan??????s fruit and vegetables is organic and the government target is 100 per cent?? Nick Abrahams
Men sit outside a house in downtown Paro, Bhutan.?? Photographer: Nick Abrahams
Men sit outside a house in downtown Paro, Bhutan.?? Photographer: Nick Abrahams

Thimphu, Bhutan: Given significant levels of dissatisfaction with the performance of politicians in Western democracies, what can we learn from a country that assesses all of its government policies based on how much they contribute to the happiness of its people?

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