Information sheet : enhancing wellbeing in Malta

Abstract

These questions have long been among the most pertinent questions that governments are tasked to answer the world over. But there is an important change that has come about in recent years: the kind of wellbeing. In many countries, for many years, it was all about material wellbeing. Government’s role was to ensure that an ever-larger pie-full of money was baked annually and that this pie is split as equitably as possible, or at least in a way that does not leave anyone in poverty. But over time, there has been a rise in the number of governments, across different countries, that have become interested in a different kind of wellbeing, a more flavourful pie that looks at human wellbeing more broadly. [excerpt]