What are the methodologies that we should employ for designing and evaluating governmental policy, in light of the …-Being and Public Policy is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this question, drawing from welfare economics, moral … philosophy, and psychology. It covers policy-assessment methodologies, both established and emerging, and reviews philosophical …

A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s …, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among …