The promotion of global wellbeing can drive the development agenda | Allister McGregor | Global development | guardian.co.uk: With pictures of starving children again on our TV screens nightly, the focus of current international development efforts is very much on the short-term imperative of saving lives. Talk of living "well" may seem over-optimistic just now, inappropriate even.
However, a focus on human wellbeing provides a new and powerful perspective on the challenges facing humanity today – and one with a greater potential to confront the roots of crises such as that experienced in east Africa today than is provided by the standard development agenda.
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