Abstract
Last couple of decades, there has been a remarkable surge of interest in measuring the progress of societies. Much of this concern has related to growing inequality in the distribution of money income, but it has also emphasised that many other factors influence economic welfare. Growth in income does not always advance human welfare. For example, if it involves reduced leisure, social amenity or imposition on family life and so on, and some non-income changes can make people much better off. The upshot at the level of theory is an important literature about the quality of life
Highlights
Last couple of decades, there has been a remarkable surge of interest in measuring the progress of societies
The upshot at the level of theory is an important literature about the quality of life (QOL), which has been driven by the works of Sen [1,2], Nussbaum and Sen [3], Erikson [4], Sumner [5], Eckersley [6,7], and many others
This is consistent with the initial definition of QOL of the World Health Organization (WHO) [11]
Summary
There has been a remarkable surge of interest in measuring the progress of societies. It is recommended to consider a mixture of objective (material) and subjective (non-material) dimensions when measuring LS study, which can be seen from the works of Stevenson and Wilfers [9], Sumner [5], De Diener and Suh [10] and many others.
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