WHERE THE REAL WEALTH IS
appiness depends upon ourselves,” said Aristotle. There is no universally accepted method or indicator to evaluate happiness—it is subjective. Hence, measuring collective happiness of a nation or province is a tough task. In 1972, Bhutan started prioritising happiness over other factors, such as wealth and economic growth, and created an indexation for happiness based on multiple measurable factors. In 2012, the Global Happiness Council, a group of independent academicians, devised their own methodology to measure happiness of countries. Such rankings
