The Social Progress of Nations Revisited, 1970-2020 50 Years of Development Challenges and Accomplishments /

• Main Author: Estes, Richard J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 78
• Subjects: Quality of life.; Economic development.; Applied sociology.; Quality of Life Research.; Development Studies.; Social/Human Development Studies.

This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over an entire 50-year period beginning 1970. It discusses original time-series research for the period 1970-2018 as well as contemporary trends in quality of life and well-being research for the period since 2018, and...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Quality of Life and Well-Being in Historical Perspective
• Chapter 2. Quality of Life, Well-Being, and Social Development: Conceptual Continuities
• Chapter 3. Methodology
• Chapter 4. Well-Being from a Global Perspective
• Chapter 5. Well-Being from a Regional Perspective
• Chapter 6. Well-Being from a National Perspective
• Chapter 7. Population Groups and Well-Being
• Chapter 8. Towards a More Positive Future.