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This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in
Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the
region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin
American countries and offers an explanation based on its many
drivers, such as family arrangements, kindness and affection of
interpersonal relations, economic situation, education regimes,
political institutions, poverty, income inequality, crime and
violence, and the weakness of political institutions. The book
provides a framework to fully understand the drivers behind high
well-being, including the challenges and opportunities that public
policy faces in the procurement of people's well-being. The book
provides relevant material for policymakers and social scientist
interested in the procurement of well-being.
This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the
field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights
and empirical findings and presents the main items of global
quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of
topics, the handbook examines discussions of demographic and health
development, the spread of democracy, global economic accounting,
multi-item measurement of perceived satisfaction and
expert-assessed quality of life and the well-being of children,
women and poor people. It looks at well-being in specific regions,
including North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, South America and
Eastern and Western Europe. In addition to contributions by leading
and younger authors, the handbook includes contributions from
International Organizations about their own work with respect to
social reporting.
This book presents original happiness research from and about a
region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness. Even when
Latin American countries cannot be classified as high-income
countries their population do enjoy, on average, high happiness
levels. The book draws attention to some important factors that
contribute to the happiness of people, such as: relational values,
human relations, solidarity networks, the role of the family, and
the availability and gratifying using of leisure time. In a world
where happiness is acquiring greater relevance as a final social
and personal aim both the academic community and the social-actors
and policy-makers community would benefit from Happiness Research
in Latin America.
This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the
field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights
and empirical findings and presents the main items of global
quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of
topics, the handbook examines discussions of demographic and health
development, the spread of democracy, global economic accounting,
multi-item measurement of perceived satisfaction and
expert-assessed quality of life and the well-being of children,
women and poor people. It looks at well-being in specific regions,
including North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, South America and
Eastern and Western Europe. In addition to contributions by leading
and younger authors, the handbook includes contributions from
International Organizations about their own work with respect to
social reporting.
This book presents original happiness research from and about a
region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness. Even when
Latin American countries cannot be classified as high-income
countries their population do enjoy, on average, high happiness
levels. The book draws attention to some important factors that
contribute to the happiness of people, such as: relational values,
human relations, solidarity networks, the role of the family, and
the availability and gratifying using of leisure time. In a world
where happiness is acquiring greater relevance as a final social
and personal aim both the academic community and the social-actors
and policy-makers community would benefit from Happiness Research
in Latin America.
This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in
Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the
region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin
American countries and offers an explanation based on its many
drivers, such as family arrangements, kindness and affection of
interpersonal relations, economic situation, education regimes,
political institutions, poverty, income inequality, crime and
violence, and the weakness of political institutions. The book
provides a framework to fully understand the drivers behind high
well-being, including the challenges and opportunities that public
policy faces in the procurement of people's well-being. The book
provides relevant material for policymakers and social scientist
interested in the procurement of well-being.
This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from
Richard Easterlin's groundbreaking work on happiness and economics.
Contributions in the book show the relevance of the Easterlin
Paradox to main areas, such as the relationship between income and
happiness, the relationship between economic growth and well-being,
conceptions of progress and development, design and evaluation of
policies for well-being, and the use of happiness research to
address welfare economics issues. This book is unique in the sense
that it gathers contributions from senior and top researchers in
the economics of happiness, whom have played a central role in the
consolidation of happiness economics, as well as promising young
scholars, showing the current dynamism and consolidation of
happiness economics.
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