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Assessing wellbeing and deprivation in later life: A multidimensional counting approach

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  • Armando Barrientos
  • Casilda Lasso de la Vega

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The paper applies a multidimensional and comparative approach to the assessment of wellbeing and deprivation among a panel of older people in Brazil and South Africa. It develops and justifies a counting approach to rank order wellbeing and deprivation distributions. An application of this approach generates substantive findings on the dynamics of the distribution of wellbeing and deprivation in later life, on stratification, and on the importance of social policy addressing ageing.

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  • Armando Barrientos & Casilda Lasso de la Vega, 2011. "Assessing wellbeing and deprivation in later life: A multidimensional counting approach," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 15111, GDI, The University of Manchester.
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