increasing income inequality, mostly between rural and urban areas but also within both rural and urban areas and across regions …

The United Nations has set as a goal for the world community the halving of the rate of poverty between 1990 and 2015 …

indexes of economic and social well-being. This reflects growing recognition of the important role macro-indicators can play … on well-being. This report provides a literature review of conceptual/operational frameworks for the development of macro …-indicators that give an assessment of economic, labour market and social conditions or states of well-being. The report provides an …

, both in Canada and abroad, to measure attributes and the well-being of society at the economic, health, environmental … composite measures that have been developed to quantify well-being in Canada, in the United States, in OECD countries, and at … the international level. The third section develops a preliminary framework for measuring the impact of research on well-being …

In this chapter, Paul Jenkins and Brian O'Reilly survey the monetary policy developments in the 1990s, focusing on … links between monetary policy and the economic well-being of Canadians. The Bank of Canada economists do admit that tight …

survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being. This … surveys the literature on subjective well-being, pointing out that unemployment lowers subjective well-being by more than the …

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …