Historical Context of the SDGs: Introduction to the SDGs -- The SDGs and the Systems Approach to Sustainability -- Analytical Framework and Economic Assessment: Key Indicators for the SDGs -- Trends in Key SDG Indicators -- An Analytical Framework for Assessing Progress -- Applying the...

Chapter 1: Introduction; Gabriele Capelli, David Mitch -- Part I: Global religious activity and schooling.-Chapter 2: Religion, colonialism and missions in Africa; Felix Meier zu Selhausen -- Chapter 3: The long legacy of missions in Latin America; Felipe Valencia -- Part II: Colonial legacies,...

This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other. In recent times, this ecology-economy-society interface has...

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and enduring poverty....

‘This is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and behavioural economists have developed since 1776. As in the first volume, markets are not the central organising principle. Instead, attention centres on social...

1. Measuring the Wellbeing of Groups -- 2. Statistical Matters -- 3. Complete Orderings: Index Types and the Ambiguity Problem -- 4. Partial Orderings -- 5. Comparing Latent Subgroups -- 6. Ambiguity Comparability Segmentation and All That -- 7. Some Applications

Chapter 1. Towards Maqāsid al-Sharī’ah Based Index of Socio-Economic Development—An Introduction to the Issues and Literature; Salman Syed Ali -- Chapter 2. Maqasid-Ush-Shariah: Are we Measuring the Immeasurable?; Rafi Amir-ud-Din -- Chapter 3. Shari‘a-based Ethical Performance...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: GDP Shortcomings and a Brief History of Creating General Measures of Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 3: Conceptual and Theoretical Basis of Balanced Development Index (BDI) -- Chapter 4: To Weight or Not to Weight? -- Chapter 5: Four Domains of...

1. Theoretical Framework -- 2. Research Design -- 3. Prevalence of Economic Vulnerability among Swiss Pensioners -- 4. The Self-Assessed Measure of Economic Vulnerability -- 5. The Perceived Measure of Economic Vulnerability -- 6. Discussion and Conclusion.

Chapter 1. Does geography matter in human development? -- Chapter 2. On contouring human development -- Chapter 3. Briefing the area for case study -- Chapter 4. Mapping the components of human development -- Chapter 5. Mapping economic inequality -- Chapter 6. Drawing the contours of...