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Beyond Business as Usual: What Might 3-D Wellbeing Contribute to MDG Momentum?

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The Millennium Declaration provided considerable impetus to refocus the efforts of development agents around the world on the major ethical challenge of eradicating global poverty. The MDGs that followed have become an important mechanism for pursuing the agenda of the Millennium Declaration. We are now, however, at a point where reflection on the MDG framework is called for. This article explores what the contribution of a concept of (3-dimensional) wellbeing might bring to a revived MDG more...

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D C on February 08, 2012

The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing

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The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person’s state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psychologically co-constituted in specific social and more...

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D C on February 08, 2012

Poverty, sustainability and human wellbeing: A social wellbeing approach to the global fisheries crisis

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While the contribution of fisheries to food security and livelihoods is difficult to quantify at a global scale due to inadequate data, we do know that millions of people globally are directly dependent upon fishing for their livelihoods and many more depend on protein rich fish as a basis for their food security. The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which a social wellbeing approach can offer a useful way of addressing the policy challenge of reconciling poverty and more...

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D C on February 08, 2012

The Bellagio Initiative

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The Bellagio Initiative is a series of global consultations to produce a new framework for philanthropic and international development collaboration in pursuit of human wellbeing in the 21st century. The project is led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the Resource Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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John Daly on January 30, 2012

Poverty in Middle-Income Countries

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In 1990, 93 per cent of the world’s poor people lived in low-income countries (LICs). Now, more than 70 per cent – up to a billion of the world’s poorest people or a ‘new bottom billion’ – live in middle-income countries (MICs) (and most of them in stable, non-fragile middle-income countries) (see Table). Furthermore, and contrary to earlier estimates that a third of the world’s poor live in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS), based on data from the early 2000s, a ‘ball-park’ estimate more...

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Moushumi Biswas on December 12, 2011

Why we need a radical change in economic thinking

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Philanthropic trusts and development agencies often still focus on orthodox economic growth models that aim for profit maximisation and efficiency. This is based on the assumption that, eventually, this will lead to better collective wellbeing. But it does not! What we need is a powerful new perspective to confront the challenges that humanity is faced with today. The focus on human wellbeing offers just that. Starting from this perspective, it is interesting to regard human wellbeing in the more...

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D C on September 18, 2011

How the world failed Haiti

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In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake on January 12th, 2010, the international community resolved not only to rebuild Haiti, but also to establish new and more efficient models for dispensing humanitarian aid. President Obama, calling the tragedy "cruel and incomprehensible," pledged "every element of our national capacity" to the response. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton created a special fund for Haiti; the American Red Cross launched a wildly successful appeal, more...

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D C on September 05, 2011

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