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Human Well-Being

Concept and Measurement

  • Mark McGillivray
Book

Part of the Studies in Development Economics and Policy book series (SDEP)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Human Well-being: Issues, Concepts and Measures
    Mark McGillivray
    Pages 1-22
  3. Human Well-being: Concepts and Conceptualizations
    Des Gasper
    Pages 23-64
  4. Income-based Measures of Average Well-being
    Steve Dowrick
    Pages 65-87
  5. Social and Political Indicators of Human Well-being
    Susan Harkness
    Pages 88-112
  6. Composite Indexes of Human Well-being: Past, Present and Future
    Mark McGillivray, Farhad Noorbakhsh
    Pages 113-134
  7. Indicators of Inequality and Poverty
    S. Subramanian
    Pages 135-166
  8. Gender-related Indicators of Well-being
    Stephan Klasen
    Pages 167-192
  9. Sustainability and Well-being Indicators
    Eric Neumayer
    Pages 193-213
  10. Subjective Measures of Well-being
    Ruut Veenhoven
    Pages 214-239
  11. Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-being
    Sarah White, Jethro Pettit
    Pages 240-267

About this book

Introduction

This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed. It takes stock of and reviews various concepts and measures and provides recommendations for future practice and research.

Keywords

inequality Poverty research science and technology sustainability well-being

Editors and affiliations

  • Mark McGillivray
    • 1
  1. 1.World Institute for Development Economics ResearchUnited Nations UniversityHelsinkiFinland

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