This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, including what these procedures entail, why they are used, and how they can be implemented.

This study focuses on the longstanding impoverishment of the rural South and three of its subregions-Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and the Black Belt. The poor quality of life in rural Appalachia and along the Mississippi Delta has been publically acknowledged by programs and commissions...

Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong.

Households in developing countries adopt livelihood strategies that often rely on income from a diversity of sources. From a policy perspective it therefore becomes important to understand the relative importance of income sources in driving inter-household inequality and poverty.

This paper proposes a new method for the measurement of the quality of relational life. Building on the recent literature on the determinants of subjective well-being, we use implicit valuations estimated from microeconometric life-satisfaction equations to weigh and aggregate scores on several...

This paper analyzes the impact of different microfinance providers on basic rights and quality of life. Data were collected in two phases from 300 microfinance beneficiaries and 200 control respondents. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, multiple regression, propensity score matching, and...

Since the change of regime there has been no Hungarian city which has experienced such a complex event as that in Pécs in 2010 – planned to drive and renew political and cultural life and to unite local social forces. The ‘Pécs 2010’ year is now over, but it will remain a serious topic...

Necessity of increasing management efficiency and extending concerns regarding social policy in contemporary societies required, as an instrumental necessity, a better evaluation of economic-social prosperity and quality of life by means of social indicators. The application of social indicators...

In the last half of the century, significant technological, economic, demographic, political, and ideological changes took place; advanced democracies went to a process of deep economic restructurings. While universal social policies still provide for protection against predictable risks of a life...

Выделены важнейшие компоненты достойного труда, позволяющие оценить различия в наиболее проблемных аспектах социально-трудовой сферы занятость, заработная...