Can a government make you happy?

Published: June 27, 2019, 2:30 a.m.

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New Zealand is the first western country to state it should be judged not by its economic prosperity but by its citizens\\u2019 wellbeing. Might these wellbeing policies be masking an inability by governments to effect any real change in citizen\\u2019s lives or do they actually end up making economic sense after all?

(Photo: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Credit: Getty Images)

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