Johannes Dragsbaek (Hrsg.) Schmidt

Development Challenges in Bhutan

Perspectives on Inequality and Gross National Happiness

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This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges. It analyzes and scrutinizes the sovereign state's developmental approach, including the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which has replaced Gross National Product (GNP) as a measurement of prosperity. The authors also explore and deconstruct ideational and cultural aspects of knowledge production and present a critical overall assessment of the political economy of education policy, health, ICT and migration in Bhutan. The book is divided into five parts all taking a critical approach towards inequality: Part one offers an assessment of Bhutan's developmenta… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-83860-1
EAN: 9783319838601
Produktnummer: 28389324
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.5 cm 435 g
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 435

Über den Autor

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is Senior Expert at Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen University, Denmark. He has held visiting research fellowships in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Poland, and was recently a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada in 2009. Additionally he has been a consultant to UNESCO, the World Bank and the Irish Development Agency. He has a broad spectrum of research interests, varying from globalisation and international division of labour to social and welfare policy and state regulations with a focus on East and South-East Asia. He has been Director of Studies in International Affairs in Five years (1998-2003); Chairman and Board member of Nordic NIAS Council Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, 2004-2005 and 2009-2010.