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oapen-20.500.12657-904362024-05-24T02:23:35Z Evaluating Economic Success Joffe, Michael Economic success Wellbeing Public policy Standard of living Basic human needs GDP thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVJ Health economics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine This open access book argues that a new policy approach is required in order to tackle the numerous problems the world is currently facing. The priority should be on achieving better outcomes for people, especially those facing deprivation or precariousness, by meeting their basic needs. In order to achieve this, the book develops a monitoring system that can act as an objective, an incentive, and a criterion of success for policy makers at all levels of government and in civil society, as well as providing information to guide specific actions. In doing so, the book aims to promote good health and positive social functioning by providing a new approach to help assess how well basic human needs are being met. This involves monitoring the outcomes of the economy that ought to satisfy these needs. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, official statistics and monitoring, public health and wellbeing, as well as practitioners. 2024-05-23T07:47:33Z 2024-05-23T07:47:33Z 2024 book ONIX_20240523_9783031576713_26 9783031576713 9783031576706 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90436 eng Wellbeing in Politics and Policy application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-57671-3.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-57671-3 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-57671-3 10.1007/978-3-031-57671-3 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783031576713 9783031576706 Palgrave Macmillan 116 Cham open access
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This open access book argues that a new policy approach is required in order to tackle the numerous problems the world is currently facing. The priority should be on achieving better outcomes for people, especially those facing deprivation or precariousness, by meeting their basic needs. In order to achieve this, the book develops a monitoring system that can act as an objective, an incentive, and a criterion of success for policy makers at all levels of government and in civil society, as well as providing information to guide specific actions. In doing so, the book aims to promote good health and positive social functioning by providing a new approach to help assess how well basic human needs are being met. This involves monitoring the outcomes of the economy that ought to satisfy these needs. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, official statistics and monitoring, public health and wellbeing, as well as practitioners.
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