Gross national luck (BNG) is the attempt, the standard of living in more holistic to define human and psychological way and thus the conventional gross national income to confront exclusively by money rivers determined measure a holistischeren reference framework.

The expression was coined/shaped by the king of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck 1972, in answering a comment of the Financial Time that the development of the bhutanesischen economy to slow its. The king wanted to express with it that he an economic development feel obligated, of Bhutan to singular culture and its buddhistischen values became fair.

While conventional development models make the economic growth the outstanding criterion of political acting, the idea of the gross national luck assumes a balanced and lasting development of the society can happen only in the interaction of material, cultural and mirror-image-ritual steps, which supplement each other and encourage. The four columns of the gross national luck are the promotion of a socially fair society and economic development, a retaining and a promotion of cultural values, protection of the environment and establishment of good government and administrative structures.

At the term it is problematic that the gross national luck can be measured only with difficulty objectively and to a set of subjective Werturteilen is subject. Since the crucial question is, who defines the corner points of the reference framework, great importance is attached to the way of the political will formation and the discussion for a new condition, running at present.

Literature

• Dieter Brauer: Largely national happiness as development goal. In: Development and cooperation 30. 2003, 7, P. 288-292

Related links

• Grossinternationalhappiness.org (English)
• Example from Austrian development co-operation
• Bhutan Studies (English)

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