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. Meaningful and coherent inter-country poverty comparisons can be advanced through international co-ordination in survey design …
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Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …
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curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction distributions for six countries reveal a substantial number of unanimous …
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Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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, advanced technology, diversity of capital flows, media, commodity flows, and emergence of international institutions. But the … economic re-organization of the world is only one, albeit critical, part of the story. The following passage concentrates on … the Pakistan's standing in development in this globalized world against some world wide acceptable indicators …
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Progress is favoured by people, companies and countries. The study attempts to define progress, as the process of developing or improving. The study explore the dimensions of progress, the benefits and the causes, the pioneers and laggards in progress, and initiators of progress. Role of...
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Up to one quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be landless, including 200 million people living in rural … codified in international human rights law. This article, which was originally written as a briefing paper for the “Forum on …-cutting issue, and is not simply a resource for one human right in the international legal framework. Rights have been established …
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In this chapter, we offer the social capabilities based approach to women's rights as human rights. We begin with the standard approach and discuss the universal human rights model before developing the social capabilities approach followed throughout the rest of this chapter. In this chapter,...
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During the recent boom in the world economy, many western developed countries, of varying political complexion, adopted …’ policies to engage or reconnect social security recipients with the workforce. The 2008 world financial crisis, and policies …
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