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This policy brief outlines a contextual background to UNU-WIDER research project on ‘Social Development Indicators’, introducing some key concepts and measures used in assessing achieved well-being. Highlighted are some of the most widely used well-being measures. The brief also provides an overview of five edited volumes that have emerged from the project, summarising some of the main conclusions. These include:

• there are many different concepts and measures of well-being, which often overlap with one another
•  well-being is inherently multidimensional and depends on a range of human capabilities and achievements
• further conceptual and empirical work is required on combining quantitative and qualitative well-being indictors
• some countries are better in converting achievements in income into achievements in other well-being dimensions
• the availability and quality of well-being data needs to be improved
• human security should be regarded as a central component of human well-being
  

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