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    <title>Understanding human well-being</title>
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    <namePart>Clarke, Matthew</namePart>
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    <publisher>United Nations University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2006</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xxiii, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 Cãote 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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Quality of life</topic>
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    <topic>Social indicators</topic>
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    <topic>Well-being</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Poverty</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Equality</topic>
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    <topic>Welbevinden</topic>
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  <subject authority="gtt">
    <topic>Kwaliteit van het bestaan</topic>
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    <topic>Sociale indicatoren</topic>
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