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Human well-being : concept and measurement / edited by Mark McGillivray. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : [Helsinki, Finland] : Palgrave Macmillan ; In association with the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007. - xiv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Studies in development economics and policy. . - Studies in development economics and policy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human well-being : issues, concepts and measures / Mark McGillivray -- Human well-being : concepts and conceptualizations / Des Gasper -- Income-based measures of average well-being / Steve Dowrick -- Social and political indicators of human will-being / Susan Harkness -- Composite indexes of human well-being : past, present and future / Mark McGillivray and Farhad Noorbakhsh -- Indicators of inequality and poverty / S. Subramanian -- Gender-related indicators of well-being / Stephan Klasen -- Sustainability and well-being indicators / Eric Neumayer -- Subjective measures of well-being / Ruut Veenhoven -- Participatory approaches and the measurement of human well-being / Sarah White and Jethro Pettit.

ISBN: 0230004989 (cloth)

LCCN: 2006047642

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA664306 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013516855 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social indicators.
Well-being.

LC Class. No.: HN25 / .H86 2007 HN25 / .H86 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 301.072/3