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Editor's note
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The keys to a happy life are fairly well established in academic research. They are good relationships, being healthy, the capacity to meet our basic needs, social and emotional skills, having a purpose in life and stability. More money, beyond the point of meeting basic needs, rarely brings that much extra happiness.
And yet, in most countries, people pursue more money to the detriment of the other factors involved in making them happy. Not only does this restrict our ability to be happy, our culture of wanting more is also exacting a heavy toll on the environment.
Happiness researcher Christopher Boyce shares some of his insights from his 18-month cycle from Scotland to Bhutan – the first country to measure prosperity based on the happiness levels of its citizens, rather than their economic output. He outlines how we can create societies that help us all live lives that bring greater well-being and which could help the environment in the process.
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Annabel Bligh
Business + Economy Editor
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Christopher Boyce, University of Stirling
Happiness may well be a choice, but it is a difficult choice. And much that might make that choice a little easier depends on the choices of influential others.
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Politics + Society
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Damilola Agbalajobi, Obafemi Awolowo University
June 12 is widely regarded as the most important day in Nigeria's post-independence poltiical history
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Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
Mexico says it emerged from tariff negotiations in Washington with its 'dignity intact.' But that dignity comes at great cost to the migrants fleeing extreme violence in Central America.
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Leila Patel, University of Johannesburg; Lauren Graham, University of Johannesburg
After recent elections, South Africa are grappling with what the reasons are for the declining trend in youth participation in the 2019 elections.
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Elena Katselli, Newcastle University
The UK must accept that colonialism belongs in the history books, and that it must comply with its obligations under international law.
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Science + Technology
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Alan Collins, University of Adelaide
As strange as it sounds, rocks are made from stardust.
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Russell Gerrard, City, University of London
When bad weather hits, there's a complex formula organisers turn to to make lost game time fair.
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Sabine Patricia Moungou Mbenda, Université de Yaoundé II; Barnabé Thierry Godonou, Université Aube Nouvelle; Lucain Some, Université Aube Nouvelle
Cinq raisons, listées ici en toute subjectivité, qui assoient l’avenir économique de l’Afrique subsaharienne malgré les événements violents et dramatiques dont elle est régulièrement le théâtre.
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Guillaume Mouralis, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
Aujourd’hui, les partisans de la justice pénale internationale, aux États-Unis comme à la CPI se réclament volontiers de « l’esprit de Nuremberg ». Ce geste rituel mérite cependant un examen critique.
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