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Analysing wellbeing: a framework for development practice

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This article presents a framework for analysing wellbeing in development practice, drawing on the work of the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group (WeD). Wellbeing is viewed as a social process with material, relational, and subjective dimensions. Wellbeing may be assessed at individual and collective levels, but at base is something that happens in relationship – between individual and collective; between local and global; between people and state. The article considers potential hazards in taking wellbeing as focus, and concludes by considering what real difference such a focus could make.

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  • Sarah C. White, 2010. "Analysing wellbeing: a framework for development practice," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 158-172, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:20:y:2010:i:2:p:158-172
    DOI: 10.1080/09614520903564199
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