Units sampled from nite populations typically come with di fferent inclusion probabilities. Together with additional preprocessing steps of the raw data, this yields unequal sampling weights of the observations. Whenever indicators are estimated from such complex samples, the corresponding...

Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...

Contents: 1. Going beyond GDP: theoretical approaches / Enrico Giovannini and Tommaso Rondinella -- 2. Going beyond GDP: empirical findings / Carlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini and Nicolas Ruiz -- 3. Human development and poverty: theoretical approaches / Suman Seth and Antonio Villar -- 4. Human...

This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that...

Marginality and social exclusion are the pertinent concepts that researchers have tried to link directly or indirectly with the universal issues of poverty and resource constraints. This research tries to find out the extent of multidimensional poverty and its determinants among Christian...