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Pakistan Today:
A budget looking beyond economic growth

2 June 2019

In the words of Professor Richard Layard, an expert on life satisfaction across populations, of the London School of Economics, 'this budget is a game-changing event.' Moreover, he indicated that there is 'no other major country that has so explicitly adopted well-being as its objective', in turn, making New Zealand the only country rethinking GDP (gross domestic product or national output) as the best measure of a nation's success.

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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