Happiness and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by John Malcolm Dowling, Chin-Fang Yap (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 330
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-32
Analysis for Asia....Pages 33-124
Analysis for Africa....Pages 125-204
Analysis for Latin America....Pages 205-272
Conclusions from the Analysis of Probit Analysis for Asia, Africa and Latin America....Pages 273-301
Back Matter....Pages 302-319

✦ Subjects

Economic Policy; Regional/Spatial Science; Development Economics; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; International Economics; Emotion

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