Assessing changes in living standards in Southeast Asia in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The colonial period: population and output growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors -- The colonial period: measures of welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds -- 2 Regional...

The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...