Happiness In Bangladesh Essay

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Introduction.
What does it take for you to be happy? How do your surroundings and the dynamics of your environment affect your state of mind and happiness? All around the world, people strive towards a happy life and many consider the acquirement of happiness as their main objective or goal. Happiness can be interpreted in terms of relationships, career, and leisure. The policies of a country or a governing entity has an indisputable role in ensuring the happiness of its citizens. Happiness has recently been taken into consideration as a major tool for measuring social progress, due to which many governing bodies have started to consider the happiness of its citizens as an important agenda in their policies. The terms “Government entity” and “Government body” is not a singular reference to a government running a country; instead, it could also be referring to a smaller body governing an area such as a town or a city. Bhutan has stimulated happiness into their government and social service policies the furthest, while as countries such as the …show more content…

The results of the “World Value Survey” provide upholding support for this statement. This survey observed a decline in happiness scores in Bangladesh, with the happiness declining steadily from 67.03% SM in 1996 to 63.4% SM in 2002 with no signs of slowing down; while countries in Europe and America have been able to maintain their high levels of happiness (Camfield, Choudhury & Devine, 2007). This is because the countries in Europe and America have a general tendency to invest in social services that lead to the design, development, and maintenance of their cities. From this, we can conclude that clean and well-designed settlements play a major role in inducing and maintaining high levels of

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