Research
CDS has a history and ongoing programme of high-quality research
that is at the forefront of studies on wellbeing in developing
countries.
Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways Project (2010-13)
Funded
by the ESRC/DFID, this project involves research in rural communities
in
Zambia and
India
to generate
evidence
about how poverty affects wellbeing and how people’s
overall wellbeing affects the ways they move into, within,
and out of
poverty. It is also developing and statistically testing
a model to assess wellbeing that could help enhance the effectiveness
of programmes to combat poverty.
Component on religion and wellbeing, Religions and
Development Research Programme (2007-9)
Bath-based researchers Joe Devine and Sarah
White coordinated a component on wellbeing and religion within
this DFID-funded programme.
They used the WeD framework to explore how religion figured in
the values and practices that made up people’s understanding
and experience of wellbeing in selected sites in Bangladesh and
India.
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