Tracking Poverty Reduction in Bhutan: Income Deprivation Alongside Deprivation in Other Sources of Happiness

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259-290

  Santos, Maria Emma ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bhutan; Counting approach; Happiness; MDGs; Multidimensional poverty measurement; South Asia

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POVERTY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

BHUTAN;

EID: 84876926674     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0248-4     Document Type: Article

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