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Happiness, Environment and Wealth: What Can Bhutan Show Us about Resolving the Nexus?
2019
Modern Economy
The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis examines how economic development can improve environmental outcomes (called Ecological Modernisation Theory) or it can cause worse outcomes (called Treadmill of Production Theory). This paper examines Bhutan which has committed policies for increased happiness and wealth while remaining carbon neutral. The difference is being tested by regression analysis of how economic growth varies with the environmental intensity of well being (EIWB). The
doi:10.4236/me.2019.108120
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