Indicators Of Quality Of Life In Latin America

Author : Graciela Tonon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319288420

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Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America by Graciela Tonon Pdf

This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in different countries of Latin America. Organized in three parts, the book presents the methodology for the construction of new indicators, discusses quality of urban life from a geographical perspective, and examines quality of life of different populations. The book focuses on the social, economic, political, geographical and demographic dimensions. It covers a wide range of topics, including the ways to measure social, political and spatial inequalities, the changes in urban quality of life, the construction of a synthetic indicator for the assessment of habitability, the measuring of spatial segregation in midsize and smaller cities by using thematic cartography and synthesis maps, and the concept of habitability. It includes research conducted on the quality of life of different population groups: working boys and girls, high-school students, and older people.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264685932

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How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making by OECD Pdf

Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people’s lives? How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making addresses this question by presenting comparative evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a focus on 11 LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay).

Author : Carol L. Graham,Eduardo Lora
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815703952

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Paradox and Perception by Carol L. Graham,Eduardo Lora Pdf

The "quality of life" concept of quality of life is a broad one. It incorporates basic needs but also extends beyond them to include capabilities, the "livability" of the environment, and life appreciation and happiness. Latin America's diversity in culture and levels of development provide a laboratory for studying how quality of life varies with a number of objective and subjective measures. These measures range from income levels to job insecurity and satisfaction, to schooling attainment and satisfaction, to measured and self-assessed health, among others. Paradox and Perception greatly improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America based on a broad "quality of life" concept that challenges some standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income. The authors' analysis builds upon a number of new approaches in economics, particularly those related to the study of happiness and finds a number of paradoxes as the region's respondents evaluate their well-being. These include the paradox of unhappy growth at the macroeconomic level, happy peasants and frustrated achievers at the microlevel, and surprisingly high levels of satisfaction with public services among the region's poorest. They also have important substantive links with several of the region's realities, such as high levels of income inequality, volatile macroeconomic performance, and low expectations of public institutions and faith in the capacity of the state to deliver. Identifying these perceptions, paradoxes, and their causes will contribute to the crafting of better public policies, as well as to our understanding of why "populist" politics still pervade in much of the region.

Author : Carmen Pagés,Carlos Scartascini,Rita Funaro,Lucía Madrigal,Suzanne Duryea,Juan Camilo Chaparro,María Victoria Rodríguez-Pombo,Eduardo Lora,Pablo Sanguinetti,William D. Savedoff,Juan Carlos Navarro,Aimee Verdisco,Mariana Alfonso,Andrew Powell
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597820844

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Beyond Facts by Carmen Pagés,Carlos Scartascini,Rita Funaro,Lucía Madrigal,Suzanne Duryea,Juan Camilo Chaparro,María Victoria Rodríguez-Pombo,Eduardo Lora,Pablo Sanguinetti,William D. Savedoff,Juan Carlos Navarro,Aimee Verdisco,Mariana Alfonso,Andrew Powell Pdf

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates Latin America-specific questions, the Inter-American Development Bank surveyed people from throughout the region and found that perceptions of quality of life are often very different from the reality. These surprising findings have enormous significance for the political economy of the region and provide a wealth of information for policymakers and development practitioners to feast upon.

Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9264938370

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How's Life in Latin America? by Oecd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264534105

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How's Life in Latin America? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264759549

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How's Life in Latin America? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kenneth C. Land,Alex C. Michalos,M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9400724217

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Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research by Kenneth C. Land,Alex C. Michalos,M. Joseph Sirgy Pdf

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.

Author : Graciela Tonon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319531830

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Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries by Graciela Tonon Pdf

This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume presents unique experiences about culture, social development, health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy makers in quality of life studies.

Author : Mariano Rojas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401772037

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Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America by Mariano Rojas Pdf

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.

Author : Eduardo Lora,Andrew Powell,Bernard M.S. van Praag,Pablo Sanguinetti
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821382136

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The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities by Eduardo Lora,Andrew Powell,Bernard M.S. van Praag,Pablo Sanguinetti Pdf

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of information and offers criteria to identify and rank the issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. This method which combines the so-called 'hedonic price' and 'life satisfaction' approaches to value public goods was tested in pilot studies in six Latin American cities: Bogot , Buenos Aires, Lima, Medell n, Montevideo, and San Jos of Costa Rica. It provides valuable insights to address key questions such as, Which urban problems have the greatest impact on people s opinions of city management and the most widespread effects on their lives? Do gaps between perception and reality vary from one area of the city to another, especially between high- and low-income neighborhoods? Where can homebuilders most feasibly seek solutions to problems such as inadequate road infrastructure, a lack of recreational areas, or poor safety conditions? Which problems should government authorities address first, in light of their impact on the well-being of various groups of individuals and given private actors abilities to respond? Which homeowners benefit the most from public infrastructure or services? When can or should property taxes be used to finance the provision of certain services or the solution of certain problems? 'The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception' proposes a monitoring system that is easy to operate and that entails reasonable costs but also has a solid conceptual basis. Long the ideal of many scholars and practitioners, such a system may soon become a reality and have the potential to make a significant contribution to the decision-making processes in any city concerned with the well-being of its residents.

Author : Mariano Rojas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030334987

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Well-Being in Latin America by Mariano Rojas Pdf

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.

Author : Manuel Winograd
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Environmental indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean: toward land-use sustainability by Manuel Winograd Pdf

Author : Valerie Møller,Denis Huschka,Alex C. Michalos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402086861

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Barometers of Quality of Life Around the Globe by Valerie Møller,Denis Huschka,Alex C. Michalos Pdf

Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s. Following the lead of pioneers in North America and Europe, social scientists in other regions of the world have adopted and refined social data systems or barometers to monitor progress in enhancing the welfare and well-being of citizens. A distinctive feature of these barometers is that they measure both individual and societal quality of life. While not overlooking the more basic needs and material standards of living, the barometers also inform on issues of individual freedoms and choices and constraints on citizen empowerment that enhance and depress quality of life. Designed to capture nuances in local definitions of the good life, regional barometers are unique expressions of the obstacles facing different societies in their quest to achieve the good life. Scholars of public policy as well as policy makers will find inspiration from reviews of innovative initiatives to monitor contemporary quality of life in six regions of the world spanning South America, the Arctic, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Author : Carol Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : OCLC:310760848

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Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America by Carol Graham Pdf

This paper addresses the issues involved in taking a broader, quality of life-based approach rather than an income-based approach to assessing welfare. Te paper shows how a quality of life approach can help to evaluate the welfare effects of factors ranging from health, education, and unemployment to institutional arrangements such as inequality and opportunity. Nonetheless, directly inferring policy implications is problematic because norms and expectations influence the way in which individuals respond to surveys and the definition of happiness is unclear. The latter allows for research comparisons across individuals and cultures but presents challenges as a basis for policymaking.