How's Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making
Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people's lives?...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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OECD Publishing
2021
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Collection: | OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people's lives? How's Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making addresses this question by presenting comparative evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a focus on 11 LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay). Spanning material conditions, quality of life, resources for future well-being, and inequalities, the report presents available evidence on well-being both before and since the onset of the pandemic, based on the OECD Well-being Framework. It also identifies priorities for addressing well-being gaps and describes how well-being frameworks are used in policy within Latin America and elsewhere around the world, providing lessons for governments on what is needed to put people's well-being at the centre of their action. The report is part of the EU Regional Facility for Development in Transition for Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Physical Description: | 366 p. 21 x 28cm |
ISBN: | 9789264534100 9789264759541 9789264685932 |