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Dimensions of Well-being and the Millennium Development Goals
Haq, Rashida; Zia, Uzma - In: The Pakistan Development Review 47 (2008) 4, pp. 851-876
Standards Measurement Survey’ 2006-07. Objective well-being index and subjective well-being index are constructed to study … province of Punjab which tends to indicate that Punjab is ahead of other provinces in terms of objective well-being. Sindh and … important to note that those districts which have higher achievements in hard facts of well-being, acquire less subjective well …
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Subjective Measures of Well-being
Veenhoven, Ruut - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001324
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Human well-being: concepts and conceptualizations
Gasper, Des - 2004
Economic measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...
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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014
This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...
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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
difference between subjective and 'objective' measures of well-being; their limitations; what we need to improve measures of … of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the … subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select and combine measures into indicators. Subjective well-being overcomes …
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
beyond income has little relevance if the objective is to provide equal opportunities. …
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
little relevance if the objective is to provide equal opportunities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717717
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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Satisfaction with life, happiness, and inequality - a pseudo-panel study
Jensen, Søren; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2020
The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...
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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions
Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...
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