Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics

Drydyk, Jay; Keleher, Lori

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“…Ideas of subjective and objective wellbeing, and measures designed to assess individuals' happiness or quality of life, heavily borrow from disciplines such as psychology and philosophy: "ideas found in modern wellbeing research, e.g., the fundamental distinction between subjective and objective, originate from traditional philosophical theories" [6]. Subjective wellbeing indicates "wellbeing as described by self" compared to objective wellbeing, alluding to measures or dimensions of life, e.g., health status, level of education, or GDP [7].…”

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“…To a point, the relationship between these two shows a positive correlation, both nationally and internationally, though the limits to this are considered by the work of Easterlin, and the notion of the Easterlin paradox: "cross-sectionally (e.g., at a particular point in time), income and happiness are positively correlated. As countries become richer over time this relationship does not hold" [6]. Despite this consideration, the positive relationship between income growth and subjective wellbeing is well-established and wealth is important to control for and factor into analyses.…”

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Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective

Scott,

Nsengiyaremye,

Todd

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Energies

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This paper assesses the relationship between the proportion of the population with primary reliance on different types of fuels for cooking (national averages) and a number of key wellbeing indices. The study uses a data set created from a combination of the Gallup World Poll database and the World Health Organisation (WHO) Household Energy Database. The Gallup database comprises multinational survey data and contains wellbeing indices (Personal Health, Social Life, Civic Engagement, Life Evaluation, Negative Experience, etc.). The WHO database gives the proportion of a population with primary reliance on different types of cooking fuels. In order to understand the relative importance of the choice of cooking fuels in terms of wellbeing, regression modelling is used to control for the effects of demographic variables (income per capita, age, education level, employment, etc.), available in the Gallup database, on the wellbeing indices. The regression analysis results show that clean cooking fuels are strongly influential in health-related indices. By adding access to electricity as an additional predictor variable, the analysis highlights the potential for integrating eCooking into national electrification plans as part of sustainable energy transitions, given that health outcomes appear to be as closely linked to the choice of cooking fuels as to access to electricity.

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Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective

Scott,

Nsengiyaremye,

Todd

et al. 2023

Energies

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“…In this dissertation, I will aim to answer the question: from an ethical point of view, how should one decide how to allocate these funds? Recent work in development ethics have expanded on what governments need to do to satisfy the ethical side constraints of good development (Drydyk and Keleher, 2018). Yet, even when governments have narrowed their options to projects that satisfy the features of good development, they are still presented with more projects than they can fund with their limited budgets.…”

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Do the Best Thing First: A Defence of The Moral Requirement for Governments to Prioritize their Limited Resources and a Tool to Help them Achieve this Goal

Courtney¹

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How should government departments prioritize their budgets? On the one hand this may strike us as a pragmatic question, one that has more to do with accounting than ethics.Yet, for many government departments, how we answer this question is of profound moral consequence. In international development spending, our funding decisions are often decisions of life and death. These contexts of high moral stakes deserve an elevated level of scrutiny from our public institutions. Yet, governments currently lack the procedures necessary to fully address the moral values at stake in these contexts. This dissertation aims to define, and respond to, this challenge.The Moral Choice-worthiness Prioritization Requirement (MCPR) holds that in contexts of high moral stakes, governments are obligated to fund the most morally choice-worthy option first. Chapter 1 outlines this requirement, and demonstrates that it is supported by public reason and a plurality of moral theories. The remainder of the dissertation works toward constructing a Project Prioritization Tool (PPT) that can address the substantial challenges raised by the MCPR. The first is the normative challenge of providing a method for governments to make principled trade-offs between the different outcomes pursued by different projects. Chapter 2 outlines a number of proposals for addressing this challenge. This provides the normative component of the PPT. The second challenge is the empirical challenge of synthesizing existing material on the efficacy of different interventions, presenting this material in a way that can be used by public servants. One suggestion for how to do so is presented in Chapter 3. This provides the empirical component of the PPT. In Chapter 4, the PPT is applied to a series of hypothetical cases that could be faced by senior decision makers at Global Affairs iii Canada. By exploring these deliberations, it is shown that the PPT substantially improves the ethical decision making capabilities currently available to public servants.

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Development Ethics

Dower¹

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Ethics

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Development ethics examines the ethical issues concerning the pursuit of socioeconomic development. The emergence of this as a subdiscipline over the past few decades sprung from earlier international debates about development in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly in relation to alleviating world poverty. Different models of development presuppose different concepts of well‐being and of justice which inform them. A development ethic can also be used to critique, if it is seen as unsatisfactory, what is done in the “name” of development by others. One significant disagreement is between those who focus on economic growth and those who argue for more expansive conceptions of well‐being and justice and put stress on factors such as environmental constraints on development. Development ethics is located within the wider framework of global ethics, which informs both the responsibilities of individuals as global citizens and the international responsibilities of nation‐states and business corporations to promote and not impede development.

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Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics

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Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective

Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective

Do the Best Thing First: A Defence of The Moral Requirement for Governments to Prioritize their Limited Resources and a Tool to Help them Achieve this Goal

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