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- Provides an overview of well-being drivers based on the Latin American experience
- Moves beyond the dominant paradigm that associates social progress to economic growth
- Incorporates cultural and historical considerations in the understanding of drivers of well-being
- Proposes a new framework for the designing of policies for well-being
Part of the book series: Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making (HWBRPM)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.
Keywords
- High Well-Being Levels in Latin American Countries
- Drivers of Well-Being in Latin America
- Income Inequality and Well-Being in Latin America
- Increasing Violence and Crime in Latin America
- Defining and Establishing Policies for Well-Being
- Relational Values and Well-Being
- Conceptualizations of Well-Being
- Subjective Well-Being Indicators in Latin America
- Objective Indicators of Quality of Life
- Health, Education and Social Instability in Latin America
- Family and Interpersonal Relations in Latin America
- Synthesis of the Current Latin American Situation
- Framework for Well-Being Policies
Authors and Affiliations
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Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain
Mariano Rojas
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Well-Being in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Drivers and Policies
Authors: Mariano Rojas
Series Title: Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33498-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33497-0Published: 23 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33500-7Published: 23 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33498-7Published: 14 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-5367
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5375
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 184
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Development Economics, Social Policy, Economic Policy