Finland is the worldâs happiest countryâfourth year in a row!âor so says the World Happiness Report, produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The United States ranks 14th, right behind Ireland and ahead of Canada.
The report authors based their conclusions on interviews with more than 350,000 people in 95 countries. One of their questions was âDid you smile . a lot yesterday?â
Had I been asked that, I might have said, âYes, I smiled at a report making impossible comparisons based on questionable markers for contentment. By the way, what do you mean by âhappinessâ?â
The report purports to compare the happy factor in Finland, a Nordic country of 5.5 million people, 91% of them ethnic Finns, with, say, the United States, a multiracial, multi-religious, multi-everything country of 330 million running from the Arctic to the tropics.
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The Rockefeller Foundation Releases New Financing Roadmap to End Pandemic by End of 2022
Calls for $44 billion in SDRs through IMF to achieve 70% vaccination rate in LMICs
Recommends an allocation of $650 billion in SDRs to catalyze a sustainable global recovery
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Rockefeller Foundation released a new roadmap for financing the end of the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of 2022 and kick-starting a just and sustainable global recovery.
An Action Plan for Financing Global Vaccination and Sustainable Growth issues a call to action to leverage $44 billion in special drawing rights (SDRs) through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to achieve a 70% vaccination rate in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by the end of 2022. These special drawing rights would be a part of a broader issuance of $650 billion in SDRs to jump start a more inclusive, sustainable recovery in LMICs