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" Understanding human well-being / "
edited by Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke.
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BL
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981957
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b736327
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Understanding human well-being /\ edited by Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke.
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Tokyo ;New York :: United Nations University Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xxiii, 386 pages)
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1429450282
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: 9781429450287
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9280811304
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9789280811308
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / Anthony Shorrocks -- Human well-being : concepts and measures / Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke -- Does it matter we do no that we do not agree on the definition of poverty? A comparison of four approaches / Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Ruhi Saith and Frances Stewart -- Economic well-being and non-economic well-being / Andrew Sumner -- The four qualities of life : ordering concepts and measures of the good life / Ruut Veenhoven -- Inequalities, agency and well-being : conceptual linkages and measurement challenges in development / Douglas A. Hicks -- On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy-set theory and Sen's capability approach / Mina Baliamoune-Lutz -- Benchmarking sustainable development : a synthetic meta-index approach / Laurens Cherchye and Timo Kuosmanen -- Adjusting human well-being indices for gender disparity : insightful empirically? / Mark McGillivray and J. Ram Pillarisetti -- Well-being and the complexity of poverty : a subjective well-being approach / Mariano Rojas -- International inequality in human development dimensions / Mark McGillivray -- Assessing well-being using hierarchical needs / Matthew Clarke -- Assessing poverty and inequality at a detailed regional level : new advances in spatial microsimulation / Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, Anthea Bill and Anthony King -- Longevity in Russia's regions : do poverty and low public health spending kill? / Oleksiy Ivaschenko -- The medium and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire : a dynamic microsimulation study / Michael Grimm -- Dynamics of poverty in Ethiopia / Arne Bigsten and Abebe Shimeles -- Prospects for ``pro-poor'' growth in Africa / Arne Bigsten and Abebe Shimeles.
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Equality.
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Poverty.
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Quality of life.
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Social indicators.
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Well-being.
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Equality.
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Lebensqualität
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Poverty.
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Quality of life.
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Social indicators.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Well-being.
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Kwaliteit van het bestaan.
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Sociale indicatoren.
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Welbevinden.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.09/045
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HN25.U53 2006eb
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77.60bcl
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Clarke, Matthew,1969-
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McGillivray, Mark.
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