Sentence examples for citizens happiness from inspiring English sources

France, which has had its own riots, has also been analyzing citizens' happiness.

Readers of "In Bhutan, Happiness Index as Gauge for Social Ills" (news article, Jan . 18 might gain the impression that Bhutan has something to teach other countries about how to enhance their citizens' happiness.

Well beyond the city limits of Somerville, which is just outside of Boston, the UK government has devised a national survey to measure its citizens' happiness levels a move that echoes the small country of Bhutan's efforts to track the Gross National Happiness of its citizens.

Sensing that GDP measures might have outlived their usefulness, last September French president Nicolas Sarkozy commissioned a report by a panel of experts headed by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, to look at how to ensure governments take full account of their citizens' happiness and wellbeing, not just the country's economic growth.

Not since Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence of people's inalienable right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" has the idea been so widely disseminated that a government should promote — or at least not obstruct — its citizens' happiness.

It even measures prosperity by gauging its citizens' happiness levels, not the GDP.

That's why some countries are starting to look at national citizen happiness and engagement and wellbeing and not just GDP.

The measure of success for Smart Dubai and the billions spent on digital transformation is a rather tenuous metric of improving citizen happiness.

Last in this category is Yang's goal to Improve the American Scorecard by tracking citizens' overall happiness along with a host of other metrics.

The dependency thesis helps Plato bring together the two characterizations of the goal of the laws in terms of the citizens' virtue and happiness, respectively: if virtue is necessary for benefit and thus for happiness, promoting the happiness of the citizens will require making them virtuous.

Less than half of British adults feel they are thriving, while American citizens experience more happiness and enjoyment, scientists say.