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This study explores the status and trends in human well-being as it varies worldwide. Human well-being comes from a nation's physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of descriptive statistics is built for each, and then aggregated into one metric to gauge the level in e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tata, Robert J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2012.
Subjects:
Poverty.
Poverty
Pauvreté.
poverty.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Economic history
Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Developing countries
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Human well-being : an analytical system
  • The physical system
  • The social system
  • The economic system
  • The political system
  • Overall human well-being
  • World physical systems, status and trends
  • World social systems, status and trends
  • World economic systems, status and trends
  • World political systems, status and trends
  • World human well-being, status and trends
  • Comparison of 4 systems index with other indicators of human well-being
  • Conclusions : human well-being around the world
  • Statistical appendix.

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