A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making

Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to move from using GDP to using subjective wellbeing as the primary metric for measuring economic and socie...

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প্রধান লেখক: Frijters, Paul, Krekel, Christian
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A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making
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