That is to underestimate the value of reducing misery.
Eliminating depression and anxiety would reduce misery by 20% compared to just 5% if policymakers focused on eliminating poverty, the report found.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least," he told Latin American bishops in 2007.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most, yet reduced misery the least," he said in 2007.
The results should then be used by government – which only exists "to promote happiness, and especially … to reduce misery" – to improve the sense of well-being of the nation by increasing mental health services.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least," he was quoted as saying by the National Catholic Reporter at a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007.
To correct these problems, thereby reducing misery, major economic reforms (read: free-market reforms) must be implemented.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least," he said.
Since 2008, Ecuador has demonstrated fairly robust growth of real GDP, substantially reduced unemployment, reduced poverty, and established a far more effective safety net to reduce misery for the poor.
"We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least," said Bergoglio at a 2007 Latin American bishops meeting, according to National Catholic Reporter.
He is attracted to mentors who introduce him to painstaking scientific research (Ernst Brücke), to charismatic investigations into the irrational (Jean-Martin Charcot), to clinical work that reduces hysterical misery to common unhappiness (Josef Breuer) and finally to unstable speculation on the secrets of human nature (Wilhelm Fliess).
