'The Happiness Index'
Excerpt from the Jamaican Gleaner article by John Rapley
Not everyone greeted the news with snickers. Some guffawed. Jamaica the third happiest country in the world? As much as we'd like to take pride in that, it's a bit hard to believe that happy, smiling folk would also top the league tables for killing each other.
The thing is, it is not a happiness index; it is the happy planet index. Put out by London's New Economics Foundation - a quirky think tank which, nonetheless, has its heart in the right place - the index is principally concerned with sustainability. The logic is that countries which are developing, without leaving too large an ecological footprint, create a happier planet.....
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