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WeD Authored/Edited Books

Forthcoming, Edited by J. Allister McGregor and Ian Gough, Development as the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

2008
James Copestake
Wellbeing and development in Peru: local and global views confronted
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2007
Ian Gough, and Allister McGregor
Wellbeing in Developing Countries:from theory to research
CUP, Cambridge

2004
Gough, I., Wood, G., Barrientos, A., Bevan, P., Davis, P., Room, G.
Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Refereed journal articles

2009
Camfield, L, Crivello, G, Woodhead, M.
Wellbeing Research in Developing Countries: Reviewing the Role of Qualitative Methods
Social Indicators Research 90(1):5-31

2008
Guillen-Royo, M.
‘Consumption and subjective wellbeing: Exploring basic needs, social comparison, social integration and hedonism in Peru’.
Social Indicators Research 89(3):535-555

Copestake, J
Poverty and Exclusion, Resources and Relationships: Theorising the Links Between Economic and Social Development.
Journal of Latin American Studies 29 (6):65-71.

James Copestake
Wellbeing and international development: what's new
Journal of International Development 20(4), October.

Camfield, L, Skevington, SM.
On Subjective Well-Being and Quality of Life.,
Journal of Health Psychology 13:764-775.

2007
Faith Martin, Camfield, L, Rodham, K, Kliempt, P, Ruta, D.
Twelve years’ experience with the Patient Generated Index (PGI) of quality of life: a graded structured review.
Quality of Life Research, 14 (4) 705-715

Laura Camfield, Danny Ruta
Translation is not enough': Using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) to assess Individual Quality of Life in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Ethiopia
Quality of Life Research 16 (6) pp 1039-1051

Danny Ruta, Camfield, L. and Donaldson, C.
Sen and the art of quality of life maintenance: towards a working definition of quality of life
Journal of Socio-Economics 36 (3) pp 397-423

Allister McGregor Mckay, A, and Velasco, J.
Needs and Resources in the Investigation of Wellbeing in Developing Countries: Illustrative Evidence from Bangladesh and Peru.'
Journal of Economic Methodology 14 (1) pp107-131

S. Deneulin and N Townsend
Public goods, global public goods, and the common good’
International Journal of Social Economics 34 (1/2):19-36

Monica Guillén Royo
Basic Needs and Expenditure on Health Care in a Shanty Town of Lima
Research in Economic Anthropology 26 pp173-198

Sarah White
Children’s Rights and the Imagination of Community in Bangladesh.
Childhood
14 (4)

Laura Camfield, Choudhury, K and Devine, J.
Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh
Journal of Happiness Studies Online 27 June 2007

Joe Devine, Camfield, L. and Gough, I.
Autonomy or Dependence – or Both? Perspectives from Bangladesh
Journal of Happiness Studies Vol 9 pp 105-138

Yamamoto, J. and Feijoo, A.R.
Componentes emicos del bienestar. Hacia un modelo alternativo de desarrollo. Revista de Psicologia, 25(2):197-231.

James Copestake
Multiple Dimensions of social assistance: The case of Peru’s Glass of Milk Programme
Journal of Development Studies Vol 44 (4) 2008 P531-548

James Copestake, Geof Wood
Reproducing Unequal Security: Peru as a Wellbeing Regime
World Development
Submitted

Suzanne Skevington
Conceptualising dimensions of quality of life
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology Vol 19 (1) 33-50

2006
Buapun Promphakping
Wellbeing: Concepts and Issues of Research? (in Thai).
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 32(2) January - March 2006

Awae Masae
Interaction between Material Resources and Cultural Resources in Contributing to Well-being in Rural Thailand
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 32(2) January - March 2006

Darunee Jongudomkarn
Holistic Approach in Health: A Methodology towards Wellbeing of the People? (in Thai).
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 32(2) January - March 2006

Dusadee Ayawat
Migration: A Livelihood Strategy for Well-being of the Household (In Thai)
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 32(2) January - March 2006

Buapun Promphakping
Resources, Needs and Global Happiness of Isan Households (in Thai)
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 32(2) January - March 2006

Alula Pankhurst with Stefan Dercon, Joachim De Weerdt and Tessa Bold
Group based funeral insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania
World Development 34 (4) 685-703

Geof Wood and Ian Gough
A Comparative Welfare Regime Approach To Global Social Policy’
World Development 34 (10) 1696-1712

Jongudomkarn, D, Aungsupakorn, N, Camfield, L.
The Meanings of Pain: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Children Living with Pain in Northeastern Thailand
Nursing & Health Sciences 2006, vol 8, 3/4

Jongudomkarn, D and Camfield, L
Exploring the Quality of Life of People in North Eastern and Southern Thailand
Social Indicators Research Volume 78, Number 3 /489-529

Devine J, Camfield L. Gough I,
'Autonomy or Dependence - or Both?: Perspectives From Bangladesh
Journal of Happiness Studies online DOI 10.1007/s10902-006-9022-5

Collard, D
Research on Well-Being: Some Advice from Jeremy Bentham
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 3, 330-354

Severine Deneulin
‘Individual Well-Being, Migration Remittances and the Common Good’
European Journal of Development Research
18(1), pp. 45-61

2005
D. A. Clark
Sen's Capability Approach and the Many Spaces of Human Well-Being
Journal of Development Studies 41(8), 1339-1368

2004
Skevington, S O’Connell K and the WHOQOL Group
Can we identify the poorest quality of life? assessing the importance of quality of life using the WHOQOL-100
Quality of Life Research Vol.13 (1), pp.23-34

Skevington, S, Lotfy, M. and O’Connell K. for the WHOQOL Group
The World Health Organisations’s WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: psychometric properties and results of the international field trial
Quality of Life Research Vol.13 (2), pp.299-310

Pankhurst, A. and Bevan, P.
Hunger and poverty in Ethiopia: local perceptions of famine and famine response
Humanitarian Exchange No. 27

White, S., Petit, J.
Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of human wellbeing
Participatory Learning and Action 50:88-96

Ruta, DA., Martin, F., Devine, J., Bevan, P., Camfield, L.
Assessing individual quality of life in developing countries: piloting a global PGI in Ethiopia and Bangladesh
Quality of Life Research 13(9): 1545

Altamirano, T., Copestake, J., Figueroa, A. & Wright, K.
Universal and Local Understanding of Poverty in Peru
Global Social Policy Vol. 4(3)

Gough, I.
Human Well-Being and Social Structures: Relating the Universal and the Local
Global Social Policy Vol. 4(3)

Gough, I. and McGregor, J.
Global Social Policy Forum: Human Well-Being: Communicating between the Universal and the Local: Guest Editors’ Introduction
Global Social Policy Vol. 4(3)

McGregor, J.
Researching Well-Being: Communicating between the Needs of Policy Makers and the Needs of People Global Social Policy Vol. 4(3)

2003
Clark, D.
Concepts and Perceptions of Human Well-Being: Some Evidence from South Africa
Oxford Develoment Studies Vol.31 (2), 173-196

2002
White, S.C.
Being, Becoming and Relationship: Conceptual Challenges of a Child Rights Approach in Development
Journal of International Development Vol.14 (8), pp.1095-1104

Chapters in Books

Forthcoming
Guillén-Royo, M. Velazco, J. Camfield,L.
‘Happiness in Thailand: Basic needs and wealth in a context of rapid change’.
in Brassard C. and Kusago T. (eds.) Development Paths And Happiness: Alternative Frameworks In Asia.

Ian Gough
Lists and thresholds: Comparing our Theory of Human Need with Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach'
Capabilities, Gender, Equality: Toward fundamental entitlement.
CUP Cambridge

2009
Pip Bevan
Working with Cases in Development Contexts: Some Insights from an Outlier
Handbook of Case-Centred Methods
Sage London

2008
Camfield, L.
Universal coverage but unequal access? Factors affecting the use of health services in Northeast & South Thailand. Moller, V., Huschka, D. Quality Of Life And The Millennium Challenge: Advances In Quality-0f-Life Studies, Theory And Research. Social Indicators Research series Springer New York

2007
Guillen-Royo
Wellbeing and consumption: Towards a theoretical approach based on human need satisfaction
Handbook on the Economics of Happiness
Edward Elgar Cheltenham

2006
Feleke Tadele
Migration, urban-rural linkages and poverty in Ethiopia: A qualitative study in Addis Ababa and Shashemene
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the Ethiopian Economics Association, edited by Getnet Alemu et al. In Vol I pp. 69-106
Ethiopian Economics Association Addis Ababa

Alula Pankhurst
Power relations as reflected in disputes and their resolutions: Evidence from six sites in the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Project
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the Ethiopian Economics Association, edited by Getnet Alemu et al. 2006, In Vol II p329-368
Ethiopian Economics Association Addis Ababa

Yisak Tafere
Destitution and social exclusion of demobilised soldiers in Ethiopia: Evidence from Kolfe Community in Addis Ababa
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the Ethiopian Economics Association, edited by Getnet Alemu et al. 2006,; In Vol I
Ethiopian Economics Association Addis Ababa

Sarah White, Jethro Petit
Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-being
Human Well-being, concept and measurement by Mark McGillivray
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke

2005
Laura Camfield and J. Allister McGregor
Resilience and wellbeing in developing countries
Handbook for working with Children and Youth: Pathways to resilience across cultures and contexts. M. Ungar (Ed.)
Sage Publications Thousand Oaks, CA

Farung Mee-Udon and Ranee Itarat
Women in Thailand: changing the paradigm of female well-being
Female well-being: toward a global theory of social change. J.M. Billson, C. Fluehr-Lobban
Zed Books London

Nasrin Sultana and Alema Karim
Women in Bangladesh: a journey in stages
Female well-being: toward a global theory of social change. J.M. Billson, C. Fluehr-Lobban
Zed Books London

David A. Clark and Ian Gough
Capabilities, needs and wellbeing: relating the universal and the local
Rethinking wellbeing. L. Manderson (Ed.)
API Network Perth Australia

2004
Camfield, L.
Measuring subjective well-being in developing countries
Glatzer, W., Von Below, S. and Stoffregen, M. Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World
Kluwer Academic Publishers Netherlands