Well-Being in Latin America / Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making (PDF)

Name: Well-Being in Latin America / Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
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Autor: Mariano Rojas

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This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region. The book assesses the current well-being situation in Latin American countries and offers an explanation based on its many drivers, such as family arrangements, kindness and affection of interpersonal relations, economic situation, education regimes, political institutions, poverty, income inequality, crime and violence, and the weakness of political institutions.

The book provides a framework to fully understand the drivers behind high well-being, including the challenges and opportunities that public policy faces in the procurement of people's well-being. The book provides relevant material for policymakers and social scientist interested in the procurement of well-being.

Autoren-Porträt von Mariano Rojas

Mariano Rojas is Professor of Economics at Universidad UPAEP in Mexico and at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The Ohio State University (United States). He was President of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) and is member of Mexico's National Research System. He coordinated the initiative Measuring the Progress of Societies: A Mexican Perspective. He is the author of 'The Scientific Study of Happiness' (FCE) and 'Can the Economy Provide Happiness?' (RBA), editor of the 'Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America' (Springer) and 'The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress' (Springer), and co-editor of the 'Global Handbook of Well-Being and Quality of Life' (Springer). His areas of research are Happiness, Quality of Life, Well-Being, Progress, Economic Development, and Poverty, and his regional area ofspecialization is Latin America.