Ian Gough / J. Allister McGregor (eds.)

Wellbeing in Developing Countries

From Theory to Research
Herausgeber: Gough, Ian; McGregor, J. Allister; Ian, Gough

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not defined solely by their poverty and a wellbeing approach provides a better means of understanding how people become and stay poor. It examines three perspectives: ideas of human functioning, capabilities and needs; the analysis of livelihoods and resource use; and research on subjective wellbeing and happiness. A range of international experts from psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, political science and development evaluate the state-of-the-art in understanding wellbeing from these perspectives. This book establishes a new strategy and methodology for researching wellbeing that can influence policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780521857512
• ISBN-10: 0521857511
• Artikelnr.: 22698470

Autorenporträt

Ian Gough is Professor of Social Policy and Deputy Director of the ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries at the University of Bath. He is the co-author of Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Cambridge, 2004) and A Theory of Human Need (1991) which was the winner of both the Deutscher and the Myrdal prizes.
Allister McGregor is an economic anthropologist and lectures in development policy analysis at the University of Bath. He is Director of the ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries and is the author of numerous articles on development policy and practice. He has worked with a wide range of international development agencies and has extensive primary fieldwork experience in South and Southeast Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Theorising wellbeing in international development Ian
Gough, J. Allister McGregor and Laura Camfield; Part I. Human Needs and
Human Wellbeing: 2. Conceptualising human needs and wellbeing Des Gasper;
3. Basic psychological needs: a self-determination theory perspective on
the promotion of wellness across development and cultures Richard Ryan and
Aislinn Sapp; 4. Measuring freedoms alongside wellbeing Sabina Alkire; 5.
Using security to indicate wellbeing Geoff Wood; 6. Towards a measure of
non-economic wellbeing achievement Mark McGillivray; Part II.
Resources: From Material to Cultural: 7. Wellbeing, livelihoods and
resources in social practice Sarah White and Mark Ellison; 8. Livelihoods
and resource accessing in the Andes: desencuentros in theory and practice
Tony Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa-Valencia, Diego Munoz and Rafael Enrique
Rojas Lizarazú; 9. Poverty and exclusion, resources and relationships:
theorising the links between economic and social development James
Copestake; Part III. Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing: 10.
Cross-cultural quality of life assessment: approaches and experiences from
the health care field Monika Bullinger and Silke Schmidt; 11. Researching
quality of life in a developing country: lessons from the South African
case Valerie Møller; 12. The complexity of wellbeing: a life-satisfaction
conception and a domains-of-life approach Mariano Rojas; Conclusion.
Researching Wellbeing: 13. Researching wellbeing across the disciplines:
some key intellectual problems and ways forward Philippa Bevan; 14.
Researching wellbeing: from concepts to methodology J. Allister McGregor.