Human development (HD), a process designed to enhance human lives directly, is contrasted with economic development, which entails the expansion of material things intended to fulfill human needs. Human development empowers people to participate in the improvement of their own well-being. The paper looks at the record of HD in Africa over the period 1970-2005, using half-decadal data derived fr...

Demography studies the characteristics of populations. One such characteristic is well-being: this was subject 2019 Wittgenstein Conference. Here, I discuss how objective well-being domains can be summarised to produce an overall score, and taking self-reported (subjective) into account may help in effort. But given that there more than one type subjective we would want know which “best”. We al...