Beyond Facts
Understanding Quality of Life. Development in the Americas 2009
Edited by Inter-American Development Bank
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
Part I: Setting the Stage
- Quality of Life Viewed through Another Lens
- The Personality of Quality of Life Perceptions
- The Conflictive Relationship between Income and Satisfaction
- Satisfaction beyond Income
Part II: Facts and Perceptions in Action
- Getting a Pulse on Health Quality
- Learning about Education Quality and Perceptions
- Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Job Quality
- Urban Quality of Life: More than Bricks and Mortar
Part III: The Curtain Call
- The People's Choice? The Rold of Opinions in the Policymaking Process