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Beyond facts : understanding quality of life
- Title
- Beyond facts : understanding quality of life / Eduardo Lora, coordinator.
- Publication
- [Washington, D.C.] : Inter-American Development Bank ; Cambridge, MA : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- ix, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Development in the Americas
- Uniform Title
- Development in the Americas.
- Alternative Title
- Understanding quality of life
- Subject
- Note
- "This special volume ... [is] the first edition of the IDB's new Development in the Americas series, which replaces its annual Report on Economic and Social Progress as the Bank's flagship publication"--P. vi.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Setting the Stage -- Ch. 1. Quality of Life Viewed through Another Lens -- Ch. 2. The Personality of Quality of Life Perceptions -- Ch. 3. The Conflictive Relationship between Income and Satisfaction -- Ch. 4. Satisfaction beyond Income -- Pt. II. Facts and Perceptions in Action -- Ch. 5. Getting a Pulse on Health Quality -- Ch. 6. Learning about Education Quality and Perceptions -- Ch. 7. Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Job Quality -- Ch. 8. Urban Quality of Life: More Than Bricks and Mortar -- Pt. III. The Curtain Call -- Ch. 9. The People's Choice? The Role of Opinions in the Policymaking Process.
- ISBN
- 9781597820790
- 1597820792
- LCCN
- 40016486774
- OCLC
- 261175209
- ocn261175209
- SCSB-9059225
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries