The World Bank logo

Valuation and evaluation: measuring the quality of life and evaluating policy (Inglês)

This paper is about measuring social well-being and evaluating policy. The analysis is motivated by the frequent need to make welfare comparisons across time and communities. A distinction is drawn between current well-being and sustainable well-being. It is argued that a set of five indices, consisting of private consumption per head, life expectancy at birth, literacy, and indices of civil and political liberties, taken together, are a reasonable approximation for the purpose in hand. The examples are designed to demonstrate how recent advances in the understanding of general resource allocation mechanisms and of environmental and resource economics can be incorporated in a systematic way into what are currently the best-practice policy evaluation techniques.

Detalhes

  • Data do documento

    1999/11/01

  • TIpo de documento

    Documento de Trabalho

  • No. do relatório

    27903

  • Nº do volume

    1

  • Total Volume(s)

    1

  • País

    Mundo,

  • Região

    Regiões Mundiais,

  • Data de divulgação

    2010/07/01

  • Nome do documento

    Valuation and evaluation: measuring the quality of life and evaluating policy

  • Palavras-chave

    life expectancy at birth;political liberty;standard of living;social cost-benefit analysis;private consumption;civil liberty;primary health-care;depreciation of capital assets;living standard;state of mind;net national product;infant survival rate;public policy;per capita gnp;indices of health;wealth of nation;real disposable income;infant mortality rate;per capita income;conception of citizenship;measure of inequality;Rule of Law;average living standard;primary health care;fear of reprisals;expenditures on health;social welfare function;quality of health;annual interest rate;correlation coefficient;civil rights;net investment;national income;discount value;political right;Economic Policy;cross-country comparison;development policy;socio-economic indicator;rank correlation;aggregate measure;country ranking;linear function;weighting system;net change;natural capital;government expenditure;average citizen;evaluation technique;

Downloads

COMPLETAR RELATÓRIO

Versão oficial do documento (pode conter assinaturas, etc.)

  • TXT*
  • Total Downloads** :
  • Download Stats

  • *A versão do texto é um OCR incorreto e está incluído unicamente em benefício de usuários com conectividade lenta.

SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL ALERTS