Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,544
Cover Image
Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
Cover Image
Human well-being: concepts and conceptualizations
Gasper, Des - 2004
Economic measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279054
Cover Image
Social and political indicators of human well-being
Harkness, Susan - 2004
A plethora of what are loosely described as social and political indicators of well-being exist. Both the range and country coverage of these indicators has increased appreciably in recent years. In this paper we ask what contribution these indicators can make towards our understanding of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284798
Cover Image
Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998545
Cover Image
Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014
This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424257
Cover Image
Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
Cover Image
Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
Cover Image
Relative deprivation in Tanzania
Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019
This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129871
Cover Image
Capability approach : a formal introduction
Leon, Dorian Fernando - 2017
Poverty Index (Dotter & Klasen, 2014). However, its operable nature in the field of evaluation of specific dimension such as … education, gender and poverty from a diffuse perspective is even broader (Addabbo, Di Tommaso & Facchinetti, 2004; Martinetti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756289
Cover Image
A very brief approximation to what is the capability approach of Amartya Sen?
León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando; Moreno, Jose Luis - 2017
The capability approach developed by Sen represents a proposal for the evaluation of individual well-being and social development centered on people and away - but not exclusive - of materiality. In the present article describes the capability approach developed by Sen and examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756305