TY - CHAP
T1 - Development Challenges in Bhutan
T2 - Perspectives on Inequality and Gross National Happiness
AU - Schmidt, Johannes Dragsbæk
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The chapter aims to analyze Bhutan’s recent historical and contemporary development trajectory through a combined focus on both political economy and political culture. The combination of Gross National Happiness (GNH), democracy and the universal delivery of social services show a number of problems and potential contradictions. The objective is to give an overall critical insight into issues related to nation-building, GNH and inequality understood not only as a material or socio-economic term relating to income, assets, land, resources, health and gender but also as a political cultural construct relating to ethnicity, religion, participation, influence and collective and individual rights. The chapter introduces the issues covered by the contributions to the book and briefly describes the aims of each chapter.
AB - The chapter aims to analyze Bhutan’s recent historical and contemporary development trajectory through a combined focus on both political economy and political culture. The combination of Gross National Happiness (GNH), democracy and the universal delivery of social services show a number of problems and potential contradictions. The objective is to give an overall critical insight into issues related to nation-building, GNH and inequality understood not only as a material or socio-economic term relating to income, assets, land, resources, health and gender but also as a political cultural construct relating to ethnicity, religion, participation, influence and collective and individual rights. The chapter introduces the issues covered by the contributions to the book and briefly describes the aims of each chapter.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-47925-5_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-47925-5_1
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-319-47924-8
T3 - Contemporary South Asian Studies
SP - 1
EP - 35
BT - Development Challenges in Bhutan
A2 - Dragsbæk-Schmidt, Johannes
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
ER -