Understanding human well-being / edited by Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Matthew, 1969- author.

McGillivray, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Poverty.

Quality of life.

Social indicators.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations University Press, 2006.

Summary:

With more than a billion people living on less than one dollar per day, human well-being is a core issue for both researchers and policy-makers. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a powerful reminder of this point. We now know more about human well-being and the related concepts of poverty and inequality than ever before, as a result of many conceptual and methodological advances and better data. Yet despite this, the vitality of underlying concepts and the quality of data are repeatedly challenged and there remains much to be desired, particularly with regard to the world's poorest c

Contents:

Understanding human well-being; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Introduction; 1 Human well-being: Concepts and measures; Part I: Human well-being concepts; Part II: Well-being measures and applications; Part III: Well-being case studies; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed February 24, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781429450287

1429450282

9789280870817

9280870815

OCLC:

476028182