eprintid: 14485 rev_number: 26 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/44/85 datestamp: 2017-03-24 12:26:52 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:28:45 status_changed: 2017-03-24 12:26:52 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Rao, N. creators_name: Min, J. creators_id: 1961 creators_id: 2098 creators_orcid: 0000-0003-1888-5292 creators_orcid: 0000-0002-0020-1174 corp_creators: Keywan Riahi, Program Director Energy title: Decent Living Standards: material prerequisites for human wellbeing ispublished: pub divisions: prog_ene abstract: We define a set of universal, irreducible and essential set of material conditions for achieving basic human wellbeing, along with indicators and quantitative thresholds, which can be operationalized for societies based on local customs and preferences. We draw support for this Decent Living Standard (DLS) from different accounts of basic justice, including the capability approach, basic needs, and primary goods. The DLS goes beyond existing multidimensional poverty indicators by comprehensively addressing living conditions and the means of social participation. The DLS offers a normative basis to develop minimum wage and reference budgets, and to assess environmental impacts, such as climate change, of eradicating poverty. date: 2017-03-20 date_type: published publisher: WP-17-005 creators_browse_id: 243 creators_browse_id: 208 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria related_url_url: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/14606/ related_url_type: publ coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Rao, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1888-5292 & Min, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0020-1174 (2017). Decent Living Standards: material prerequisites for human wellbeing. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-17-005 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14485/1/WP-17-005.pdf