This is the ninth World Happiness Report. The first eight reports were produced by the founding trio of co-editors assembled in Thimphu in July 2011 pursuant to the Bhutanese Resolution
passed by the General Assembly in June 2011 that invited national governments to “give
more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social
and economic development.” The Thimphu meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Jigme Y.
Thinley and Jeffrey D. Sachs, was called to plan for a United Nations High-Level Meeting
on ‘Well-Being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm’ held at the UN on
April 2, 2012. The first World Happiness Report was prepared in support of that meeting and
reviewing evidence from the emerging science of happiness.
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