Understanding human well-being 2006, Understanding human well-being. Edited by McGillivray, Mark and Clarke, Matthew, United Nations University Press, New York, N.Y.. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads mcgillivray-understandinghuman-2006.pdf Published version application/pdf 21.27MB 476 Title Understanding human well-being Editor(s) McGillivray, Mark orcid.org/0000-0002-6461-2706 Clarke, Matthew Publication date 2006 Total pages xxiii, 386 p. Publisher United Nations University Press Place of Publication New York, N.Y. Notes Also published by Bookwell, New Delhi, 2006 Contents : 1. Human well-being : concepts and measures / Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke -- Pt. I. Human well-being concepts -- 2. Does it matter that we do not agree on the definition of poverty? : a comparison of four approaches / Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Ruhi Saith and Frances Stewart -- 3. Economic well-being and non-economic well-being / Andrew Sumner -- 4. The four qualities of life : ordering concepts and measures of the good life / Ruut Veenhoven -- 5. Inequalities, agency and well-being : conceptual linkages and measurement challenges in development / Douglas A. Hicks -- Pt. II. Well-being measures and applications -- 6. On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy-set theory and Sen's capability approach / Mina Baliamoune-Lutz -- 7. Benchmarking sustainable development : a synthetic meta-index approach / Laurens Cherchye and Timo Kuosmanen -- 8. Adjusting human well-being indices for gender disparity : insightful empirically? / Mark McGillivray and J. Ram Pillarisetti -- 9. Well-being and the complexity of poverty : a subjective well-being approach / Mariano Rojas -- 10. International inequality in human development dimensions / Mark McGillivray -- 11. Assessing well-being using hierarchical needs / Matthew Clarke -- 12. Assessing poverty and inequality at a detailed regional level : new advances in spatial microsimulation / Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, Anthea Bill and Anthony King -- Pt. III. Well-being case studies -- 13. Longevity in Russia's regions : do poverty and low public health spending kill? / Oleksiy Ivaschenko -- 14. The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Cote d'Ivoire : a dynamic microsimulation study / Michael Grimm -- 15. Dynamics of poverty in Ethiopia / Arne Bigsten and Abebe Shimeles -- 16. Prospects for "pro-poor" growth in Africa / Arne Bigsten and Abebe Shimeles. ISBN 9280811304 9789280811308 Language eng Field of Research 140202 Economic Development and Growth Socio Economic Objective 970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economics HERDC Research category A7.1 Edited book Copyright notice ©2006, United Nations University Press Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30028707 Document type: Book Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of International and Political Studies Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation School of Humanities and Social Sciences Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 26 May 2010, 15:28:30 EST Mon, 26 Jul 2010, 11:08:31 EST Mon, 26 Jul 2010, 11:10:44 EST Tue, 27 Jul 2010, 14:27:49 EST Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 08:26:22 EST Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 08:29:30 EST Tue, 27 Aug 2013, 10:09:00 EST Mon, 16 Feb 2015, 08:03:13 EST Tue, 07 Jun 2016, 09:07:20 EST Fri, 26 Aug 2016, 14:21:22 EST Mon, 05 Sep 2016, 15:17:27 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 15:12:36 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 12:02:18 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1103 Abstract Views, 476 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 26 May 2010, 15:28:30 EST

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