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Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies. Most of these countries have fragile democratic regimes that are threatened by the high social and political costs of reform. Governments-and ultimately societies-have to make hard choices about allocating scarce public resources as they undergo these transitions. A central, often controversial, and most poignant question is how to protect vulnerab...

The quality of life concept of quality of life is a broad one. It incorporates basic needs but also extends beyond them to include capabilities, the livability of the environment, and life appreciation and happiness. Latin Americas diversity in culture and levels of development provide a laboratory for studying how quality of life varies with a number of objective and subjective measures. These measures range from income levels to job insecuri...

This book makes concrete recommendations on crafting a new blueprint for distributing and delivering aid to make the Millenium Challenge Account an effective tool, not only in its own right, but also in transforming U.S. foreign aid and strengthening international aid cooperation more generally.

Economist Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness and clearly presents both the promise and the potential pitfalls of injecting the "economics of happiness" into public policymaking. While the book spotlights the innovative contributions of happiness research to the dismal science, it also raises a cautionary note about the issues that still need to be addressed before policymakers can make best use of them.

Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis.

This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Author Carol Graham examines reforms in education, health, social security, and state-owned enterprises across a range of country and income contexts, with case studies from Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Graham's studies show that market incentives can have positive effects on the performance of public institutions.

In "Happiness and Hardship, " Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia.