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High Five to Bhutan!!!

Stewart Willis, the Former Executive Director of New Economics Foundation, a UK based think-tank which is propagating a new model of wealth creation based on equality, diversity and economic stability, wrote an article for World Economic Forum (WEF), highlighting five measures of growth namely; g ood jobs, well being, environment, fairness and health which are better than Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In his article (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/five-measures-of-growth-that-are-better-than-gdp/), Stewart likens GDP to a speedometer in an automobile, which only reflects the speed at which the vehicle is moving, but will not give you an indication of anything else. He says that New Economics Foundation likens these five parameters to a dashboard of a car which you can glance at for an overall picture, and can even deep dive into individual parameters if the need arises. While reading this article, the only country that came to my mind was the beautiful Kingdom of Bhutan,...