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Measuring happiness

(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-09-14 08:33

While developing the economy, China needs to step up its efforts to improve people's medical, education, housing, and employment conditions, to name but a few. Economic growth will not automatically bring them those benefits.

The new plan by the NBS, in this sense, is a clearer sign that the country is moving in the right direction.

The drafting of the happiness index, however, is risky. It must be based on solid statistics and surveys. And it must be independent, free of any influence from political forces or vested interests.

Otherwise, an index that differs greatly from the general public feeling will not only be absurd, but risk leading policy-makers awry.

(China Daily 09/14/2006 page4)

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