Italian: benessere socialeEnglish translation: social welfare 
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Italian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Economics | | Italian term or phrase: benessere sociale | accrescendo il benessere sociale
'increasing social wealth' doesn't sound quite right.... |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseadele oliveri: 5:25pm Feb 4, 2008: Hi Lietta! Could you please provide us with further context about your translation? Is this an economic text you are translating? How does the sentence fit in with the rest? I am still pondering over your question, and I am convinced...
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| | social welfare | Explanation:
any economics textbook will talk about "social welfare", i.e. the welfare of society as a whole.
it is a pretty standard term in economics.
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-02-03 12:03:05 GMT)
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I suggest you have a quick look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics
Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to simultaneously determine allocative efficiency within an economy and the income distribution associated with it. It analyzes social welfare, however measured, in terms of economic activities of the individuals that comprise the theoretical society considered...
I do agree that social welfare = the wellbeing of society, however "social welfare" is THE standard formulation in economics and I suggest you stick to that...
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 adele oliveri
Italy
| Note from asker to answererThank you! Yes, IT WAS an economics essay; sorry for lack of context!
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| social wellbeing
Explanation:
I would translate it in this way.
| Jean Martin
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of:  English
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The translation workplace 
