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Essays, lectures, research papers on the use of social indicators of social development for social planning in developing countries - discusses theoretics, criteria, frameworks and methodology for quality of life evaluation, with operational models for optimal resource allocation; includes a comparison of national accounting matrices, a case study of South Africa R, and relevant aspects of development theory. Annotated bibliography, references, statistical tables.
First published in 1972. This issue is concerned with development (and development indicators) in a particular period of time and in a particular historical context—namely in the context of the changes that are taking place in the less-developed or low-income countries of the third world in the period since World War II.
Research report on social indicators and their role in development policy evaluation in Latin America - analyses shortcomings of per capita income as a measure of economic and social development, aims of development indicators and traditional uses of economic indicators, and suggests a set of indicators covering health, population conditions, nutrition, education, housing, communications, transport, services, income distribution, agriculture, industry, trade, etc. References and statistical tables.
The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds. Social indicators are statistical time series “...used to monitor the social system, helping to identify changes and to guide intervention to alter the course of social change”. Examples include unemployment rates, crime rates, estimates of life expectancy, health status indices, school enrollment rates, average achievement scores, election voting rates, and measures of subjective well-being such as satisfaction with life-as-a-whole and with specific domains or aspects of life. This book provides a review of the historical development of the field including the history of QOL in medicine and mental health as well as the research related to quality-of-work-life (QWL) programs. It discusses several of QOL main concepts: happiness, positive psychology, and subjective wellbeing. Relations between spirituality and religiousness and QOL are examined as are the effects of educational attainment on QOL and marketing, and the associations with economic growth. The book goes on to investigate methodological approaches and issues that should be considered in measuring and analysing quality of life from a quantitative perspective. The final chapters are dedicated to research on elements of QOL in a broad range of countries and populations.
If the goal of economic development is to promote human welfare, the most efficient focus of development efforts is in very low-income developing countries. There the payoff in improved social indicators that measure human welfare is higher than it would be for similar efforts in middle-income countries.