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Development is now all about Modi coining new terms, not Indians? well-being: Shashi Tharoor

1 November 2019

In order to tackle this, we must first accept that a well-being budget is not an 'either-or' proposition. It need not be a substitute for conventional economics, but rather, as a project that will help us develop tools and indicators that take economic outcomes beyond their face value and move towards what the economist Richard Layard (one of the chief editors of the UN Global Happiness Index) terms the ultimate objective of 'life satisfaction', which would offer a better measurement of how our citizens are faring - arguably a far more significant duty of the government of the day.

The World Happiness Report 2019, produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). Editors John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs.

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