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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Author: Kingdon, Geeta ; Knight, John Date: Jul 2005 Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income â€“ measured as average income ... Read more c b n a
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty?

Author: Kingdon, Geeta ; Knight, John Date: Jul 2005 The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. This paper asks: to what extent are these different concepts measurable, to what extent are they competing ... Read more c b n a

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