Understanding Human Well-being

Understanding human well-being......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 12
Contributors......Page 17
Foreword......Page 21
Acknowledgements......Page 23
Acronyms......Page 24
Introduction......Page 27
Introduction......Page 29
Volume orientation and contents......Page 32
Key conclusions......Page 37
REFERENCES......Page 39
Part I: Human well-being concepts......Page 43
Introduction......Page 45
Common problems encountered in defining and measuring poverty......Page 46
The monetary approach......Page 50
The capability approach......Page 56
Social exclusion......Page 61
Participatory methods......Page 64
A comparative overview......Page 66
Some empirical evidence on the approaches to poverty measurement......Page 70
Conclusions......Page 74
REFERENCES......Page 75
Introduction......Page 80
Characteristics of poverty and well-being indicators......Page 81
The meaning and measurement of poverty and well-being......Page 82
Economic well-being measures of well-being......Page 87
Non-economic well-being measures of well-being......Page 90
Composite measures of well-being......Page 93
Concluding discussion......Page 94
REFERENCES......Page 96
4 The four qualities of life: Ordering concepts and measures of the good life......Page 100
Grouping qualities of life......Page 101
Outer and inner qualities......Page 102
Four qualities of life......Page 103
Meanings within quality quadrants......Page 105
Difference with other classifications of qualities of life......Page 108
Meanings in comprehensive measures of quality of life......Page 110
Measures for specific qualities of life......Page 115
Can quality of life be measured inclusively?......Page 120
Why cross-quadrant sum scores make no sense......Page 121
Use of this taxonomy......Page 122
REFERENCES......Page 124
Introduction: Inequalities and the capabilities approach......Page 127
Inequality and well-being......Page 128
Inequality and agency......Page 132
Incorporating agency and inequalities in development indicators: Challenges of measurement......Page 134
Conclusions and implications......Page 137
Notes......Page 139
REFERENCES......Page 140
Part II: Well-being measures and applications......Page 143
Introduction......Page 145
Human well-being, human development and Sen’s capability approach......Page 146
A fuzzy-set-based approach for HDI computation......Page 148
Computation of fuzzy-set-based human well-being subindices: A simple illustration......Page 153
Concluding remarks......Page 161
REFERENCES......Page 162
Introduction......Page 165
Meta-index of sustainable development......Page 167
Benefit-of-the-doubt weighting......Page 168
Methodological extensions......Page 170
Existing ISDs: A selective survey......Page 171
Human Development Report (2001)......Page 172
Environmental sustainability index (2002)......Page 174
Ecological footprint (1996-1998)......Page 175
Model specification......Page 176
Country rankings......Page 177
Cluster-level analysis......Page 182
Weights......Page 183
Discriminatory power......Page 185
Correlation analysis......Page 187
Concluding discussion......Page 189
Appendix......Page 191
Notes......Page 192
REFERENCES......Page 193
Introduction......Page 195
The GDI and GEM......Page 196
Data and statistical methods......Page 200
Results......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 203
REFERENCES......Page 206
Introduction......Page 208
On the approach......Page 209
On the main findings in the literature and their explanations......Page 211
The database......Page 212
Poverty and sample inference......Page 213
Subjective well-being in the survey......Page 214
Subjective well-being and income......Page 215
Subjective well-being and access to public services......Page 216
Subjective well-being and socio-economic indicators: Correlation analysis......Page 217
Subjective well-being and heterogeneity in perceptions......Page 218
Personal expenditure and poverty perception......Page 219
Personal expenditure and perception of material needs’ satisfaction......Page 220
A taxonomy of domains of life......Page 221
Life domains and subjective well-being......Page 222
Socio-economic indicators and satisfaction in the domains of life......Page 223
A conceptual referent theory study......Page 224
Conceptual referent heterogeneity, SWB and socio-economic indicators......Page 226
Conclusions......Page 227
Notes......Page 228
REFERENCES......Page 230
Introduction......Page 233
Inequality concept and measures......Page 234
Data and results......Page 236
Conclusion......Page 240
REFERENCES......Page 241
Introduction......Page 243
Maslow’s hierarchical framework......Page 244
Fulfilment of hierarchical needs and well-being......Page 246
Weights......Page 249
Aggregation......Page 251
Analysis......Page 252
FHNI and GDP per capita......Page 253
The FHNI and the HDI......Page 254
REFERENCES......Page 262
Introduction......Page 265
Existing individual and household data......Page 266
Synthetic microdata......Page 267
Spatial microsimulation......Page 268
The SYNAGI reweighting approach......Page 269
The addition of microsimulation......Page 270
Overall impact of the policy option......Page 271
Mapping results......Page 276
Results for individual postcodes......Page 277
Conclusions......Page 284
Acknowledgements......Page 285
Notes......Page 286
REFERENCES......Page 287
Part III: Well-being case studies......Page 289
Introduction......Page 291
Geographical patterns of life expectancy, variations over time and potential causes......Page 293
Theoretical grounds......Page 298
Empirical specification and estimation technique......Page 300
The data......Page 301
Estimation results......Page 306
Robustness of results......Page 312
Conclusions......Page 316
Acknowledgements......Page 317
Notes......Page 318
REFERENCES......Page 320
Introduction......Page 324
Enrolment ratios and education level......Page 326
Current education programmes......Page 327
Key characteristics of the model......Page 328
Modelling of schooling decisions......Page 329
Modelling of occupational choices and earnings......Page 332
Transmission channels between education and income distribution in the model......Page 337
Policy experiments......Page 338
Evolution of the level and distribution of education......Page 341
Impact on growth and the distribution of income......Page 342
Indirect effects through the different transmission channels......Page 345
Conclusion......Page 347
Acknowledgements......Page 348
REFERENCES......Page 349
Introduction......Page 352
Duration analysis......Page 354
Measuring vulnerability to poverty and chronic poverty......Page 355
The persistence of poverty......Page 357
Transition probabilities......Page 362
Duration analysis......Page 363
Vulnerability and its determinants......Page 370
Determinants of chronic poverty......Page 372
Concluding remarks......Page 373
Notes......Page 376
REFERENCES......Page 377
Introduction......Page 379
Trends in income distribution and poverty in Africa......Page 380
Measures of ‘‘pro-poor’’ growth......Page 382
The equity-growth trade-off......Page 387
The challenges of pro-poor growth strategies......Page 395
Conclusion......Page 398
Notes......Page 399
REFERENCES......Page 400
Index......Page 403