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Developing countries 'lucky with politicians'

As the parties battle out their economic policies of how best to make us richer, should they be focussing on what makes us happier? Francois Lelord, author of the international bestselling novel Hector and the Search for Happiness, comments on how happiness is affected by politics.

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