• Preface
• Acknowledgments

  Part I: Setting the Stage
1. Quality of Life Viewed through Another Lens
2. The Personality of Quality of Life Perceptions
3. The Conflictive Relationship between Income and Satisfaction
4. Satisfaction beyond Income

Part II: Facts and Perceptions in Action

5. Getting a Pulse on Health Quality
6. Learning about Education Quality and Perceptions
7. Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Job Quality
8. Urban Quality of Life: More than Bricks and Mortar

Part III: The Curtain Call

9. The People's Choice? The Rold of Opinions in the Policymaking Process
• References
• Index

The Inter-American Development Bank is the main source of multilateral financing for economic, social, and institutional development projects as well as trade and regional integration programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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