Human well-being
Subtitle: concept and measurement
By: edited by Mark McGillivray
Contributors: McGillivray, Mark; World Institute for Development Economics Research
Series: Studies in development economics and policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; In association with the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York; [Helsinki, Finland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Social indicators; Well-being
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Human well-being : issues, concepts and measures / Mark McGillivray; title: Human well-being : concepts and conceptualizations / Des Gasper; title: Income-based measures of average well-being / Steve Dowrick; title: Social and political indicators of human will-being / Susan Harkness; title: Composite indexes of human well-being : past, present and future / Mark McGillivray and Farhad Noorbakhsh; title: Indicators of inequality and poverty / S. Subramanian; title: Gender-related indicators of well-being / Stephan Klasen; title: Sustainability and well-being indicators / Eric Neumayer; title: Subjective measures of well-being / Ruut Veenhoven; title: Participatory approaches and the measurement of human well-being / Sarah White and Jethro Pettit