ISBN:
9780511488986
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxiii, 399 pages)
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DDC:
306.09172/4
Keywords:
Entwicklungsländer
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Basic needs / Developing countries
;
Well-being
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Quality of life / Developing countries
;
Quality of life / Research
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Lebensqualität
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Lebensqualität
Abstract:
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not defined solely by their poverty and a wellbeing approach provides a better means of understanding how people become and stay poor. It examines three perspectives: ideas of human functioning, capabilities and needs; the analysis of livelihoods and resource use; and research on subjective wellbeing and happiness. A range of international experts from psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, political science and development evaluate the state-of-the-art in understanding wellbeing from these perspectives. This book establishes a new strategy and methodology for researching wellbeing that can influence policy
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: 1. Theorising wellbeing in international development Ian Gough, J. Allister McGregor and Laura Camfield; Part I. Human Needs and Human Wellbeing: 2. Conceptualising human needs and wellbeing Des Gasper; 3. Basic psychological needs: a self-determination theory perspective on the promotion of wellness across development and cultures Richard Ryan and Aislinn Sapp; 4. Measuring freedoms alongside wellbeing Sabina Alkire; 5. Using security to indicate wellbeing Geof Wood; 6. Towards a measure of non-economic wellbeing achievement Mark McGillivray; Part II. Resources: From Material to Cultural: 7. Wellbeing, livelihoods and resources in social practice Sarah White and Mark Ellison; 8. Livelihoods and resource accessing in the Andes: desencuentros in theory and practice Tony Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa-Valencia, Diego Munoz and Rafael Enrique Rojas Lizarazu; 9. Poverty and exclusion, resources and relationships: theorising the links between economic and social development James Copestake; Part III. Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing: 10. Cross-cultural quality of life assessment: approaches and experiences from the health care field Monika Bullinger and Silke Schmidt; 11. Researching quality of life in a developing country: lessons from the South African case Valerie Moller; 12. The complexity of wellbeing: a life-satisfaction conception and a domains-of-life approach Mariano Rojas; Conclusion. Researching Wellbeing: 13. Researching wellbeing across the disciplines: some key intellectual problems and ways forward Philippa Bevan; 14. Researching wellbeing: from concepts to methodology J. Allister McGregor
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511488986
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