2 April was a special day where world leaders gathered to deliberate the resolution on happiness - Resolution 65/309 Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York Monday said “Gross National Product has long been the yardstick by which economies and politicians have been measured. Yet it fails to take into account the social and environmental costs of so-called progress. We need a new economic paradigm that recognizes the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together they define gross global happiness".
Bhutan introduced the idea of “Gross National Happiness” in the early 1970s and in 2011 the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution noting that using a purely financial indicator “does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people in a country.”
A copy of the World Happiness Report can be obtained at
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Sachs%20Writing/2012/World%20Happiness%20Report.pdf
Reference source: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/03/10995853-be-happy-not-just-rich-says-un-chief-ban-ki-moon
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