Analysing wellbeing: a framework for development practice

Reference:

White, S. C., 2010. Analysing wellbeing: a framework for development practice. Development in Practice, 20 (2), pp. 158-172.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614520903564199

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Abstract

This article presents a framework for analysing wellbeing in development practice, drawing on the work of the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group (WeD). Wellbeing is viewed as a social process with material, relational, and subjective dimensions. Wellbeing may be assessed at individual and collective levels, but at base is something that happens in relationship - between individual and collective; between local and global; between people and state. The article considers potential hazards in taking wellbeing as focus, and concludes by considering what real difference such a focus could make.

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