This report surveys the growing interest in understanding local and regional development in terms of its contribution to human well-being. It highlights the limits of traditional measures of development, notably GDP and its variants, and charts the search for alternative measures of development. It examines attempts to introduce a concern with well-being in local and regional development policy and the political barriers to achieving this
The purpose of this study is to formulate policy views from the perceived trends in regional develop...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
This paper gives some arguments for the need to redefine economic progress or to shift beyond Gross ...
This report surveys the growing interest in understanding local and regional development in terms of...
This chapter updates and extends Chap. 15 “The Measurement of Regional Growth and Wellbeing” as it a...
This note introduces the special issue on Well-being in cities and regions: measurement, analysis an...
Wellbeing has become important in regional development policy as decision-makers grapple with delive...
The primary aim of this Thesis was to improve our understanding of what people value and find most i...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use multidimensional approach to provide a well-being desc...
For more than eighty years policy makers across the world have been targeting GDP growth as the main...
Over the past decade, increasing effort has been made to develop both national and global indices of...
Motivated by both: academic research illuminating the diminishing returns nature of the relationship...
Well-being is becoming a concept which is more and more involved in any world development considera...
The concept of well-being has deep roots in philosophy [Cantril (1965)]. Much later in the 19t...
Well-being is a concept difficult to define and eventually harder to quantify. The idea of providing...
The purpose of this study is to formulate policy views from the perceived trends in regional develop...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
This paper gives some arguments for the need to redefine economic progress or to shift beyond Gross ...
This report surveys the growing interest in understanding local and regional development in terms of...
This chapter updates and extends Chap. 15 “The Measurement of Regional Growth and Wellbeing” as it a...
This note introduces the special issue on Well-being in cities and regions: measurement, analysis an...
Wellbeing has become important in regional development policy as decision-makers grapple with delive...
The primary aim of this Thesis was to improve our understanding of what people value and find most i...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use multidimensional approach to provide a well-being desc...
For more than eighty years policy makers across the world have been targeting GDP growth as the main...
Over the past decade, increasing effort has been made to develop both national and global indices of...
Motivated by both: academic research illuminating the diminishing returns nature of the relationship...
Well-being is becoming a concept which is more and more involved in any world development considera...
The concept of well-being has deep roots in philosophy [Cantril (1965)]. Much later in the 19t...
Well-being is a concept difficult to define and eventually harder to quantify. The idea of providing...
The purpose of this study is to formulate policy views from the perceived trends in regional develop...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
This paper gives some arguments for the need to redefine economic progress or to shift beyond Gross ...