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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Duryea, Suzanne; Powell, Andrew; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943604
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Income, Deprivation, and Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa; Marchionni, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
of income, multidimensional non-monetary, and subjective deprivation for all countries in the region based on Gallup data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944360
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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life
Powell, Andrew; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper proposes a methodology to resolve the problems that result from using a combination of objective and subjective information in evaluating urban quality of life. The paper further suggests techniques to identify and rank issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944422
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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy
Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320049
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2013 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Rethinking Reforms: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Escape Suppressed World Growth
Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Global growth projections have waned since last year and growth may be suppressed below potential for several years to come. Lower global growth will, all things being equal, imply lower growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the same time, clear limits to the potential use of monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672948
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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scartascini, Carlos; Funaro, Rita; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895496