Chapter 1: MV Nadkarni and Quest for Planetary Well-Being: An Introduction and an Invitation -- Part I: Quest for Planetary Well-Being: The Life and Works of MV Nadkarni -- Chapter 2: MV Nadkarni’s Economics of Well-Being -- Chapter 3: Broad Basing Process for Socio-Economic Transformation:...

Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist die Frage, welche Rollenbilder in West- und Ostdeutschland in Hinblick auf die Berufstätigkeit von Frauen vorherrschen und inwieweit sich Lebensentwürfe und Rollenbilder angesichts veränderter institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen als stabil erweisen. Hier macht...

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of life satisfaction and happiness in Central Asia from an empirical and comparative perspective. Drawing on econometric models, it reveals how economic conditions, gender, culture, and social norms shape subjective well-being in Kazakhstan,...

This paper investigates the notion and role of trust in modern societies as a first step towards the construction of indicators that could better inform our understanding of societal progress. Trust is commonly viewed as a proxy indicator of social capital, and a high level of trust is...

There is a broad recognition that the development of cross-cutting, high-quality, shared, and accessible information about a society's progress is crucial to ensure that decision-making is simultaneously responsive and responsible at all levels. There is no single correct way to manage a project...

This paper looks at different experiences in the development and use of societal progress indicator sets – at the European, national and sub-national level – with the aim of identifying useful lessons from these experiences. Five case studies are presented: the indicators used to support the...