In this study, household livelihood strategies in an Albanian village are investigated using income, expenditure and material asset accounts for the village's economy, supplemented by an analysis of qualitative data. Households were divided into thriving; surviving; and struggling categories,...

The paper offers an analysis of how to operationalize the development goal of promoting well-being, and provides an exemplar. It focuses on one element of a comprehensive methodology to operationalize empirical research into the social and cultural construction of well-being in developing...