strong evidence that, in rural Ethiopia, aspirations are positively associated with satisfaction in life and/or happiness …Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges in … indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of …

This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time — 2003 and 2007 — from a multidimensional … perspective. The measures estimated include consumption expenditure as well as other indicators which are directly (when possible … been identified as sources of happiness in the 2007 Gross National Happiness Survey. Twelve different measures are …

the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the … happiness levels across the different social strata are the same, especially among the poor and the neglected. Using data from …