| Autor institucional : | ODI |
| Fecha de publicación: | Junio, 2015 |
| Alcance geográfico: | Internacional |
| Publicado en: | Internacional |
| Descargar: | Descargar PDF |
| Resumen: | This project note examines how the measurement of human well-being might contribute to making development policy and practice more effective. A surge of interest in and initiatives to develop measures of human well-being as a yardstick of societal progress followed the publication of the Final Report of the ‘Commission on Measuring Economic Performance and Social Progress’ in 2009 (The Stiglitz Commission: Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussie, 2009), with a large number of competing conceptualisations, methodologies and ideologies now underpinning the initiatives underway. This paper begins by reviewing the current state of the art in the measurement of well-being field and is organised around a discussion of approaches to each of the three tasks necessary to make the exploration of ‘what matters for people’ relevant for policy and practice: |
