McGillivray Human Well-Being

Concept and Measurement
2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-62560-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Development Economics and Policy

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGillivray, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Human Well-being: Issues, Concepts, and Measures; M.McGillivray Human Well-being: Concepts and Conceptualizations; D.Gasper Income-Based Measures of Average Well-being; S.Dowrick Social and Political Indicators of Human Well-Being; S.Harkness Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future: M.McGillivray & F.Noorbakhsh Indicators of Inequality and Poverty; S.Subramanian Gender-related Indicators of Well-being; S.Klasen Sustainability and Well-being Indicators; E.Neumayer Subjective Measures of Well-being; R.Veenhoven Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-being; S.White & J.Pettit

Über Autor(innen)

STEVEN DOWRICK Professor of Economics, Australian National University, Australia
DES GASPER Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
SUSAN HARKNESS Lecturer in Economics, University of Bristol, UK
STEPHAN KLASEN Professor of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany
ERIC NEUMAYER Reader in Environment and Development, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
FARHAD NOORBAKHSH Professor of Development Economics and Head, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow, UK
JETHRO PETTIT Member, Participation Group, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
S. SUBRAMANIAN Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India
RUUT VEENHOVEN Professor of Social Conditions for Human Happiness, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
SARAH WHITE Lecturer in Sociology and International Development and Director, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK