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Moller, Valerie; Radloff, Sarah – Social Indicators Research, 2013
It is commonly assumed that better living standards will boost subjective well-being. The post-apartheid South African government subscribes to this idea; its social policies aim to provide "a better life for all". Since the coming of democracy in 1994, the state has built over 3 million houses and supplied electricity and clean water to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Social Services, Social Change
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Rossouw, Stephanie; Naude, Wim – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Most research on the non-economic quality of life have been (a) on a national level or performed on cross-country comparisons, and/or (b) used subjective indicators to measure how people perceive their non-economic quality of life. In this paper, our main contribution is to construct objective indicators of the non-economic quality of life for 354…
Descriptors: Low Income, Quality of Life, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries