an idyll in a fairy tale. It is home to perhaps 900,000 people most of whom live in grinding poverty." Other criticism of GNH cites "increasing levels of political corruption, the rapid spread of diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis, gang violence, abuses against women and ethnic minorities, shortages in food/medicine, and economic woes." See also Broad measures of economic progress Economics Happiness economics Happy Planet Index Human Development Index Humanistic economics Life satisfaction Materialism Minister of State for Happiness Small Is Beautiful Utilitarianism World Values Survey References Footnotes References Adler Braun, Alejandro. Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: A Living Example of an Alternative Approach to Progress, 24 September 2009 Confucious. Analects 13:16. The Analects : Zi Lu - Chinese Text Project Diener, Ed and Robert-Biswas Diener. Happiness – Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008. 290 pages. . Eric Zencey, "GDP RIP," New York Times, 9 August 2009 Opinion | G.D.P. R.I.P. Eric Ezechieli, "Beyond Sustainable Development: Education for Gross National Happiness in Bhutan" https://web.archive.org/web/20060906230028/http://suse-ice.stanford.edu/monographs/Ezechieli.pdf, Stanford University, 2003 Layard, Richard (2005), Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Penguin Press, Powdyel, T.S. "Gross National Happiness, A Tribute," Gross National Happiness, Kinga, Sonam, et al. (eds) (1999), Thimphu: The Center for Bhutan Studies Priesner, Stefan (2004), Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science: A South Asian Response, SAGE Publications, Schroeder, Kent (2018), Politics of Gross National Happiness: Governance and Development in Bhutan, Cham (Switzerland): Palgrave Macmillan, Thinley, L. (October 1998). Values and Development: "Gross National Happiness." Speech presented at the Millennium Meeting for Asia and the Pacific, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Tideman, Sander G. (2016), Gross National Happiness: Lessons for Sustainability Leadership, South Asian Journal of Global Business Research, Vol. 5 Iss 2 pp. 190 – 213 External links International Institute of Management – US based GHN research, GNH policy white paper Bhutan 2008 Paeans to the King World Happiness Report Nadia Mustafa, "What About Gross National Happiness?", Time, 10 January 2005 Rajni Bakshi, "Gross National Happiness" , Resurgence, 25 January 2005 Bhutan, Gross National Happiness and Sustainable Development – YouTube (12:31) Gross National Happiness USA United States-based non-profit using GNH framing to spark dialogue and inform public policy. Macroeconomic indicators Ecological economics Environmental economics Economic ideologies Economy of Bhutan Social ethics Happiness indices Political theories