%0 Journal Article
%@ 2319-7064
%A Muchdie, Muchdie
%A Department of Management, Post Graduate School, Muhammadiyah University of Prof. DR. HAMKA,
%D 2017
%F repository:153
%J International Journal Of Science and Research (IJSR)
%N 1
%P 1899-1908
%T ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HAPPINESS: A CROSS-NATIONS PATH ANALYSIS MODEL
%U http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/id/eprint/153/
%V 6
%X This paper directly and indirectly examines the impact of economic growth on happiness, with human development as  moderator variable. Cross-nations data on economic growth, human development, and happiness indices were collected from 124  countries and employed in a path analysis model. The results show that economic growth had a direct negative and significant impact  on both happiness and human development. Meanwhile, human development had a positive and significant direct impact on happiness.  Indirectly, through moderator variable human development, economic growth again had a negative and significant impact on  happiness. An implication of this finding was that economic growth is no longer a single important factor of a development indicator. It  is then suggested that human development, rather than economic growth, sustainably be promoted in order to make everyone always  feels happy