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This paper has paid closer attention to industrialized economic growth strategy and people's life satisfaction in Japan after the World War II. For this analysis, it has applied conventional growth measurements against alternative one, and we have found some discrepancies between GDP and HDI. Also, we have examined if these measures could represent people's life satisfaction correctly. To explore this in greater detail, the paper has dealt with the secondary data on people'slife satisfaction gathered by the government of Japan every three years from 1978 to 2002. Our analysis reveals that personal attributes and individual economic and social positions do differentiate people's life satisfaction levels. Individual factors like age, gender, marital status, house ownership, income level and educational attainment are influential over people's life satisfaction levels. Investigation of people's life satisfaction could lead us to reexamine quality of economic development and urge us to identify alternative measures capturing people's real well-being and we might be able to formulate/select public policies to enhance people's overall well-being in the future. ; This paper has paid closer attention to industrialized economic growth strategy and people's life satisfaction in Japan after the World War II. For this analysis, it has applied conventional growth measurements against alternative one, and we have found some discrepancies between GDP and HDI. Also, we have examined if these measures could represent people's life satisfaction correctly. To explore this in greater detail, the paper has dealt with the secondary data on people'slife satisfaction gathered by the government of Japan every three years from 1978 to 2002. Our analysis reveals that personal attributes and individual economic and social positions do differentiate people's life satisfaction levels. Individual factors like age, gender, marital status, house ownership, income level and educational attainment are influential over people's life satisfaction levels. Investigation of people's life satisfaction could lead us to reexamine quality of economic development and urge us to identify alternative measures capturing people's real well-being and we might be able to formulate/select public policies to enhance people's overall well-being in the future.

This paper analyzes the determinants of female migration to export processing zones (EPZs) in Malaysia. A comparison of the individual and household migration models reveals interesting and important contrasting results. First, the role played by the expected net income gains is opposite in the two models: negative in the individual model, positive in the household model. Second, family migration experience is significant in the individual model but not in the household model. Third, attitudes matter to the household decision on a daughter's migration but not in the individual model. These contrasting results suggest that explaining the daughter's migration decision may require more than separation of the individual motives and familial needs.

The purpose of this project is to take a closer look at Bhutan and Japan's experiences and outlook in terms of subjective wellbeing and economic growth. While the two countries contrast in many respects, in particular with respect to geography and the stage of economic development, they also share common features. Both are largely Buddhist countries, and both can be said to be at a critical stage in their socio-economic development, although in quite different ways. While Japan must find a way to overcome a decade of economic crisis and to cope with the requirements of post-modern development, Bhutan must find an answer to the questions of how to deal with the changes triggered by its fairly recent modernization policy and how to position itself in the global economy. The challenge for both is essentially the same: how can economic progress be harnessed for the happiness of the people? This study on Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan is an attempt to find some answers to this question, through the utilization of existing data on life satisfaction in Japan, and through a pilot survey inventorying people's perceptions on happiness and wellbeing in Bhutan. With their many differences as well as similarities, Bhutan and Japan are two uniquely positioned countries in Asia providing an interesting opportunity to understand the relation between economic or material prosperity and people's subjective perceptions on what is most important for their wellbeing. Part One is the analysis report of the pilot survey carried out by the Centre for Bhutan Studies on psychological and subjective wellbeing (PWB/SWB) in Bhutan. Part Two is the report on relationship between economic prosperity and people's perceptions of their lives through the long-term trend data regularly collected by the government of Japan.