- Read the short editorial by Duncan Madden at https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/03/28/ranked-the-10-happiest-countries-in-the-world-in-2019/#4f49d19248a5 regarding the most recent World Happiness Report. If you want to see the full report, it is available here: http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/
- Upload your individual response of 2-3 paragraphs (about 1 page) to the following questions. Your response will clearly involve some amount of opinion, but do your best at thinking through and analyzing the questions fully before writing your answer. Carefully organize your writing before uploading your response, and any information from outside sources must be cited appropriately using MLA style. You should upload these to the “Unit 4 Writing Assignment” folder. Please be sure you save your assignment as .rtf, .docx, .doc in order to upload. See the attached rubric for how you will be graded on this assignment.
Instructions/Questions
- Choose one of the top 10 countries, and search for its 2017 or 2018 economic growth rate (you can use GDP or GDP per capita growth rate).
- Do you think the amount of recent economic growth in your chosen country made a contribution to the happiness level measured in the report?
- What specifically has your chosen country done to promote economic growth? How have they focused on human capital, physical capital, or technology? This could involve government policies and/or private sector initiatives. (Answering this question requires doing some research on your own, separate from reading the initial short editorial.)
