Understanding human well-being
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Tokyo ; New York :
United Nations University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Anthony Shorrocks
- Human well-being : concepts and measures / Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke
- Does it matter we do no that we do not agree on the definition of poverty? A comparison of four approaches / Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Ruhi Saith and Frances Stewart
- Economic well-being and non-economic well-being / Andrew Sumner
- The four qualities of life : ordering concepts and measures of the good life / Ruut Veenhoven
- Inequalities, agency and well-being : conceptual linkages and measurement challenges in development / Douglas A. Hicks
- On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy-set theory and Sen's capability approach / Mina Baliamoune-Lutz
- Benchmarking sustainable development : a synthetic meta-index approach / Laurens Cherchye and Timo Kuosmanen
- Adjusting human well-being indices for gender disparity : insightful empirically? / Mark McGillivray and J. Ram Pillarisetti
- Well-being and the complexity of poverty : a subjective well-being approach / Mariano Rojas
- International inequality in human development dimensions / Mark McGillivray
- Assessing well-being using hierarchical needs / Matthew Clarke
- Assessing poverty and inequality at a detailed regional level : new advances in spatial microsimulation / Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, Anthea Bill and Anthony King
- Longevity in Russia's regions : do poverty and low public health spending kill? / Oleksiy Ivaschenko
- The medium and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire : a dynamic microsimulation study / Michael Grimm
- Dynamics of poverty in Ethiopia / Arne Bigsten and Abebe Shimeles
- Prospects for ``pro-poor'' growth in Africa / Arne Bigsten and Abebe Shimeles.