Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion - A Reassessment of Brazilian Economic Growth

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mariano Torras, Torras Mariano
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2003
• EAN: 9780754631538
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3153-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Alternative Voices In Contemporary Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, NATURE / Ecology, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, c 1960 to c 1970, Social impact of environmental issues, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Development economics & emerging economies, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Development economics and emerging economies