This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … for all involved in the poverty debate. Its approach to the measurement of poverty and its policy conclusion are original …

happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …

, as incomes rise throughout the population, the incomes of one's comparison group rise along with one's own income and …The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason …

, as incomes rise throughout the population, the incomes of one's comparison group rise along with one's own income and …The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason …

sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute …Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic … growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective …

sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute …Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic … growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective …

of per capita income, experience with internal conflict, region of the world, oil, wealth, distance from the equator … countries do poorly. -- Human development ; quality of life ; happiness ; capabilities ; country behavior …