… When we inquire about the prosperity of a nation or a region of the world, and about the
quality of life of its inhabitants, Sissy Jupe's problem still arises: How do we determine this? What …

… and the quality of life of its population; how the approach of the country’s industrial structure
to its progressive state influences the country’s economic development and quality of life of …

… indices—SL (Standard of Living) and QL (Quality of Life)—across 170 countries, supporting
Sen’s capability approach. Focusing on 52 African countries, we adopt and compare two …

… These eight domains of QOL have therefore driven the choice of indicators in the present
study for the 43 countries of the world for which comparable data on various indicators of the …

… As such we can also infer quality-of-life in a nation from the citizen’s happiness. The two
approaches to the measurement of quality-of-life in nations are summarized in Table I; the latter …

… The current study was conducted to estimate the integrated mean of Quality Of Life (QOL)
of the general population of different countries around the world and to compare them on the …

… divorce) rather than as quality-of-life. One can discount that … one measures the quality of
the world's countries by current … , but should we call the quality-of-life in a society better if 50% …

… In this paper we model the QOL across countries as an unobservable latent link variable …
indices for 43 countries for the year 1999, noting differences between countries and varying …

… Third, the sample of countries was small and does not cover all world regions and cultural
variation. In addition, for most countries, the data collection was restricted to one participating …

… 24 facets universally regarded by all 15 field centres as important in assessing quality of
life, and four general questions that address overall quality of life and health. Four questions …