indexes of economic and social well-being. This reflects growing recognition of the important role macro-indicators can play … on well-being. This report provides a literature review of conceptual/operational frameworks for the development of macro-indicators …There has been an explosion of interest in recent years in Canada and other countries in macro-indicators and composite …

. The fourth section discusses briefly the role of indicators in public policy initiatives to improve the well-being of …The main objective of this report is to conduct a survey and assessment of various indicators used by organizations …, both in Canada and abroad, to measure attributes and the well-being of society at the economic, health, environmental …

In recent years, interest in aggregate or composite indicators of economic and social well-being at the community … provide a survey of the major indicators of economic and social well-being that have been developed at the national and … attempted to develop social indicators to monitor trends in the welfare of their citizens. The objective of this paper is to …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being … (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a … new composite measure of economic well-being developed by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. Osberg and Sharpe …

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …

constitutional obligation of enhancing social and economic well-being, particularly the common man. While developed economies use a … set of indices to measure well-being, a systematic and comprehensive empirical assessment of well-being is found wanting … in most developing countries, including India. This paper discusses the status of social and economic well-being of …

Today, though the need for new indicators of progress is broadly recognized, no consensus has arisen on a successor to … current indicators, by completing or adjusting them, within the logic from which they have emerged. On the other are those for … whom new indicators of progress are liable, if well-designed, to catalyze a transition toward a new model of society, less …