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

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2003
Authors:	Mariano Torras
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-26418-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General
LSN:	1-138-26418-0
Barcode:	9781138264182

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