Welfare, inequality, and resource depletion : a reassessment of Brazilian economic growth

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    • Torras, Mariano

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Welfare, inequality, and resource depletion : a reassessment of Brazilian economic growth

Mariano Torras

(Alternative voices in contemporary economics)

Ashgate, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book breaks new ground by accounting for the welfare implications of both severe inequality and environmental degradation and developing a sustainable development indicator that incorporates changes over time in each of these dimensions. The model is applied to data from Brazil spanning the 1965 -1998 period. The book's findings cast significant doubt on the proposition that rapid economic growth in Brazil has resulted in comparable welfare gains. The evidence presented more generally illustrates the often unsustainable nature of rapid GDP growth phases, as well as the general unreliability of GDP growth as an indicator of well-being improvement. The specific policy implication is that Brazil should discontinue - or at least severely curtail - the regressive and resource intensive economic policies it has followed in recent decades in the interest of welfare improvement not only for the poorer groups in society, but for future generations of Brazilians as well.

目次

  • Contents: Sustainable development: an introduction
  • The political economy of growth and deforestation in Brazil
  • Measuring sustainable development: definitional issues and competing perspectives
  • Green income accounting: the commodity value of natural resources
  • Green income accounting: the conservation value of natural resources
  • Sustainable development reassessment: application of the distribution weights framework
  • Conclusion: requiem for GDP?
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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