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Follow Bhutan's lessons for post-coronavirus life

It can show the world green model for economic development

Kanni Wignaraja and Azusa Kubota
| Bhutan
A woman carries her daughter near Punakha; Bhutan strives to balance economic development with its GNH philosophy.   © Reuters

Kanni Wignaraja is U.N. Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. Azusa Kubota is Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program in Bhutan.

The tiny Kingdom of Bhutan may be managing to fend off COVID-19, but it cannot escape its crushing economic blow.

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