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Increasing people’s Well-Being

Increasing people’s Well-Being. Mariano Rojas FCCT. The Experience of Being Well. People’s experience of being well matters Pleasures and pains Enjoyments and sufferings Achievements and failures A new Wealth-of-Nations conception A new ‘object’ of progress

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Increasing people’s Well-Being

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  1. Increasing people’sWell-Being Mariano Rojas FCCT

  2. TheExperience of BeingWell • People’s experience of being well matters • Pleasures and pains • Enjoyments and sufferings • Achievements and failures • A new Wealth-of-Nations conception • A new ‘object’ of progress • Income is a mean but not an end

  3. TheExperience of BeingWell • SWB approach • We should not presume people’s well-being, but we should ask people about it • Empowering people • People are not as enthusiastic about current well-being indicators as those who construct and use them are

  4. TheExperience of BeingWell • Public policy influences people’s experience of being well • Enhancing current impact of public policies and development strategies • Measuring SWB to know the impact • Incorporating SWB to design better policies

  5. DevelopmentStrategies • People-centered development • Placing people’s experience of being well at the center • Income and GDP as an instruments • Having a society where people are satisfied with their life • Reconsidering • Human capital • Social capital • Physical capital • Leisure as being idle

  6. DevelopmentStrategies • From ‘Human Capital’ to ‘Skills for Living a Satisfactory Life’ • Intrinsic value of education and health • Reconsidering educational and health programs • From ‘Social Capital’ to ‘Human Relations’ • Intrinsic value of social networks • Others as ends rather than as means

  7. DevelopmentStrategies • From ‘Physical Capital’ to ‘Livability of People’s Surrounding Conditions’ • An environment that contributes to experiencing well-being • The value of parks, green areas, social and public spaces, so on • Leisure and its gratifying using • It is an important well-being source

  8. Enhancing Social Programs • Getting people out of poverty is great . . . placing them in a life-satisfying situation is even better • Designing social programs • Aiming for people’s satisfaction with life • Incorporating hidden well-being costs and benefits

  9. Enhancing Social Programs

  10. Enhancing Social Programs • Domains of life • People are much more than consumers • “There is more in life than the standard of living; and for most people there are more important things.”

  11. Social Programs

  12. Social Programs: HiddenCosts

  13. Enhancing Social Programs

  14. Enhancing Social Programs • Superior patternout of poverty • Well-beingenhancing • Gettingpeopleout of poverty and placingthem in a lifesatisfyingsituation • Goingbeyondincome • Aim, design and evaluation • Incorporatingalldomains of life

  15. Allocation of Resources • Valuation • Non-marketvaluation • Publicgoods • Non-marketgoods • Complementingmarketvaluation • Duetomarketfailures • Marketconcentration • Unfairincomedistribution

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