...Julia Wdowin Purpose The aim is to contribute to the personalist economics research agenda by exploring how personalist thought can theoretically inform the question of well-being and its measurement. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the work of personalist philosopher Emmanuel...

... as killing two birds with one stone because this approach warrants performing both religious and social obligations simultaneously. Interestingly, the study explores that shariah compliance acts as a guiding force for selecting well-being-oriented projects in zakah-funded CSR resulting...

...Dorina Lazar; Cristian Marius Litan Purpose This paper aims to study through a comprehensive set of socioeconomic indicators the regional level of well-being achieved in Romania, and monitor the improvements and disparities in well-being after a decade of accession to the European Union. Design...

...Christopher Gan; Dao Le Trang Anh; Quang Thi Thieu Nguyen Purpose This study investigates the psychological impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on Vietnamese people and examines the factors affecting their psychological well-being during and after the lockdown period. Design/methodology/approach...

..., some concluding remarks are offered. Social trust Well-being Economic performance Catchwords Concept formation Learning economy Catchwords and phrases can be found in nearly every field of human activity where they weave themselves into the daily fabric of social and workplace...

... be contacted at: nissimB@yvc.ac.il 19 08 2015 15 09 2016 27 09 2016 11 10 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Efficiency Well-being Optimal time allocation Actual allocation Minimized gap We will refer...

...Izete Pengo Bagolin Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to investigate if there is any evidence of differentials in the well-being achievements of two groups which will be called the “artificially” and the “truly” not poor; and second, to test the hypothesis that income from work...

...@SUSQU.EDU 05 07 2015 14 09 2015 10 03 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Income distribution Well-being O40 D60 I00 R10 Some discount the seriousness of the growing income divide, saying...

...Guido Bonatti; Enrico Ivaldi; Riccardo Soliani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the changes in well-being in the Italian reality, in particular, through the study of major cities. The study is based on a set of data provided by the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT...

... to the literature. It seems to me, then, that Sen needs to be more radical than he has been so far in his criticism of utilitarian accounts of well-being, by introducing an objective normative account of human functioning and by describing a procedure of objective evaluation by which functionings can be assessed...

... to a person’s well-being” (Sen, 1999a , pp. 3-4). How well a person is “builds on the straightforward fact” of “what kind of life he or she is living, and what the person is succeeding in ‘doing’ or ‘being’” (my italics, p. 19). Being happy is but one among several important modes of being. Moreover...

...Oznur Ozdamar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of life satisfaction in Turkey. Moreover, this study explores the effects of air pollution and crime problems on well-being. Design/methodology/approach The estimates are based on cross-sectional data from...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bangladesh Health policy Malnutrition Developing countries Well-being Decomposition analysis Concentration index Child malnutrition is one of the leading population health problems in many countries, with significant health...

... to capture any unobserved country characteristics that are fixed over time. For example, governments may be more likely to ratify CEDAW and comply with its rules in countries where individuals are more sensitive to women’s and girls’ well-being due to culture, religious beliefs, or population characteristics...

...Valeria Andreoni; Stefano Galmarini Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use multidimensional approach to provide a well-being description across European regions. Design/methodology/approach – By considering the set of socioeconomic indicators provided by Eurostat for the EU 266 NUTS...

... supplement, rather than supplant existing measures of well-being (Hicks et al., 2013). With this in mind, governments should, at a minimum, be examining existing and future policies according to their impact on various dimensions of quality of life (Kroll and Delhey, 2013). As Hicks et al...

...Seyed Hadi Arabi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess orthodox theories of well-being in western civilization at first, and second, to investigate Islamic views regarding this concept. Then, comparing these two groups of views, it tries to show that there is a kind of convergence...

... deprivation and expenses profile for Brazilian data. Human capabilities Developing countries Poverty Well-being 2.5 – Specific popular asset – stove. 3 – Database: subjective evaluation. 3.1 – Dwelling – luminosity, ceiling, foundations, walls, floors, windows and doors. 3.2 – Public...

... to enhance their financial well-being. There appears to be somewhat mixed findings as to whether age plays an influential role in determining one’s financial literacy. For instance, some studies note the existence of an inverse U-shape, highlighting the middle-age group as being more financially...

.... Sustainability and well-being depend on the harmonic interplay between the three systems. According to Lindner, “We […] live in historically unprecedented times of risk, but also in historically unprecedented times of opportunity” (Lindner, 2012, p. xxv). The tension between the mechanical and the organic...