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From The Green Interview website: Bhutan & Gross National Happiness This half-hour film began as a 2009 interview with the Honourable Jigme Yoser Thinley, the first elected Prime Minister of Bhutan, whose government aimed to entrench and extend Bhutan's long-standing goal of expanding Gross National Happiness rather than Gross National Product. [...] To put the interview in context, we prepared this original half-hour documentary film, using footage of Bhutan shot by Silver Donald Cameron and by Nova Scotia film-maker Kent Martin. For the film, we re-interviewed Dr. Ronald Colman, who had earlier spoken to us about his work on a Genuine Progress Index for Nova Scotia, Canada. [...] The work in Nova Scotia had led to Dr. Colman's appointment as an adviser to the Royal Government of Bhutan on how to implement and measure Gross National Happiness [...]."

For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607816, 607817, 607818.

For other interviews in The Green Interview fonds on this subject, see: Colman, Ronald. Measuring Gross National Happiness in Bhutan (January 2011, Mikan no. 5858712); Colman, Ronald. The true measures of progress (August 2009, Mikan no. 5858713); Kim, Julia. Happiness: reconnecting to self, others, and nature (Mikan no. 5858739); Yoser Thinley, Hon Jigme. Governing for Gross National Happiness (December 2019, Mikan no. 5858798).