Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...

For years, German development cooperation (GDC) has been striving to become more results-oriented. In 2022, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) took an important step in this direction by introducing 43 standard indicators. The aim was to aggregate development...

The Human Development Index (HDI) uses GDP per capita to measure 'command over resources,' which implicitly makes the strong value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter. This paper presents revised estimates of the Index of Economic Well-Being (IEWB) for the United States, the...

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of Berlin, Germany. The GCD-Index calculation is based on the concept of city integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main structures, which are (i) Main Structure-1:...

Main description: Die Autorin zeichnet die Wohlfahrtsentwicklung der breiten Bevölkerung in Deutschland in der Zwischenkriegszeit im Vergleich zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den fünfziger Jahren nach. Folgende Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt: Wie veränderte sich die Wohlfahrt im...