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The Social Progress of Nations Revisited, 1970–2020National Quality of Life and Well-Being: 50 Years of Development and Well-Being Challenges and Progress

The Social Progress of Nations Revisited, 1970–2020: National Quality of Life and Well-Being: 50... [Thus far, we have documented major shifts that have occurred in quality of life and well-being worldwide from 1970 to the present. Along with selected estimates for the next 2 years, these data illustrate national trends in well-being by decade over the most recent 50-year period. The author has previously reported on interim trends for the period 1970–2020. These trends have been strongly positive and forward-oriented over the entire period covered by the earlier reports (Estes, 1976, 1988, 1998a, 1998b, 2007, 2010, 2012a, 2012b, 2015b, 2018). In recent years, and with other scholars working on the same period, national studies also have been undertaken on countries characterized by extensive histories of diversity-related social conflict that, in the case of North Africa and West Asia, has taken the form of religiously inspired acts of terrorism in both their own and other nations (el-Aswad, 2019; Sirgy, Estes, & Rahtz, 2018). Targets of the latter have been primarily major population and financial centers in Western nations (of Europe and North America) as well as the national capitals and centers of national defense and defense intelligence within these countries (Central Intelligence Agency, 2018). Though the number of acts of international terrorism has successfully been reduced in the last several years, even so, horrific acts of terrorism continue to take place in the countries of origin and their nearby neighbors, e.g., Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, among others.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Social Progress of Nations Revisited, 1970–2020National Quality of Life and Well-Being: 50 Years of Development and Well-Being Challenges and Progress

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-15906-1
Pages
89 –109
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-15907-8_6
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[Thus far, we have documented major shifts that have occurred in quality of life and well-being worldwide from 1970 to the present. Along with selected estimates for the next 2 years, these data illustrate national trends in well-being by decade over the most recent 50-year period. The author has previously reported on interim trends for the period 1970–2020. These trends have been strongly positive and forward-oriented over the entire period covered by the earlier reports (Estes, 1976, 1988, 1998a, 1998b, 2007, 2010, 2012a, 2012b, 2015b, 2018). In recent years, and with other scholars working on the same period, national studies also have been undertaken on countries characterized by extensive histories of diversity-related social conflict that, in the case of North Africa and West Asia, has taken the form of religiously inspired acts of terrorism in both their own and other nations (el-Aswad, 2019; Sirgy, Estes, & Rahtz, 2018). Targets of the latter have been primarily major population and financial centers in Western nations (of Europe and North America) as well as the national capitals and centers of national defense and defense intelligence within these countries (Central Intelligence Agency, 2018). Though the number of acts of international terrorism has successfully been reduced in the last several years, even so, horrific acts of terrorism continue to take place in the countries of origin and their nearby neighbors, e.g., Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, among others.]

Published: Jul 31, 2019

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