The present research explores the socio-economic problems arising in a typical peripheral rural area - the Wide Area of Daunian Mountains (WADM)- in Southern Italy in order to analyse the concept of ‘well being’ through the analysis of the ‘quality of life’. For these purposes, we will...

This article provides a multi-dimensional index for evaluating well-being in the EU. It begins with an overview of an analytical approach that goes beyond utilitarianism: Dasgupta’s quality of life framework, which is defined according to the goals of EU policies and based on a set of...

Последствия кризиса, не смотря на его глобальный характер, носят индивидуальный характер для каждой страны и всех секторов ее экономики, в зависимости от уровня...

Major welfare reform legislation passed the U.S. Congress in August 1996 by a broad bipartisan majority and was signed into law by President Clinton. Almost 10 years and many research articles later, the long-term effects of welfare reform are still being debated.