Decent Living Standards: Material Prerequisites for Human Wellbeing

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 225-244

  Rao, Narasimha D ^a   Min, Jihoon ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decent living; Fair wage; Human development; Human wellbeing; Multidimensional Poverty; Reference budget

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; LIVING STANDARD; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; WAGE;

EID: 85019893806     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1650-0     Document Type: Article

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