The last three editions of the World Happiness Report have ranked the small nation of Togo dead last. As I dug into the World Happiness Report and examined the criteria by which countries were ranked, it became painfully clear to me why Togo landed at the bottom of the list. Most of the six dimensions used to measure happiness are tied in one way or another to poverty, which is omnipresent in Togo. Not only are Togo's GDP and life expectancy among the lowest in the world, other measures including social support and generosity are severely limited by a lack of resources. Togo has received this