Well-being and the complexity of poverty: A subjective well-being approach

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This investigation studies human well-being from a subjective well-being approach. On the basis of a Mexican database the investigation shows that there is a weak relationship between subjective well-being and indicators of well-being such as income and consumption. Therefore, subjective well-being provides additional useful information to study human well-being and, in consequence, poverty. Three reasons for the existence of a weak relationship are studied: First, the fact that a person is much more than a consumer; second, the role of heterogeneity in human perceptions; and third, the existence of heterogeneity in purposes of life. The understanding and abatement of poverty would be better served by a concept of human well-being which incorporates subjective well-being indicators and which is based on the wholeness and complexity of human beings.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN: 9291906166

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2004/29

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Demographic Economics: General
• Thema: socioeconomic indicators ; subjective well-being ; happiness ; poverty ; Lebensqualität ; Sozialer Indikator ; Mexiko

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Rojas, Mariano
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63558
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ