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    Beijing

Updated Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 22:38

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At the heart of the Himalaya mountains, over 3,000 meters high, there is a Buddhist kingdom that almost five decades ago decided that its main economic indicator was not going to be GDP, but the IBF: Gross Inner Happiness. For years, that idea has covered the headlines of hundreds of international stories transmuted into fairy tales: "Bhutan, the happiest country in the world . " And there is nothing like the appeal of selling happiness to get out of impoverished self-isolation and with

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