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Evaluating alternatives to GDP as measures of social welfare/progress

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Antal, Miklós - 2014

Proposed alternatives to GDP as a measure of social welfare or human progress are briefly evaluated. Four main categories are considered, namely ISEW and GPI based on corrections of GDP, sustainable or green(ed) GDP, genuine savings/investments and composite indexes. All these alternatives turn...

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Optimal multi-regional patterns of economic development and material resource use

Janssen, Marco A.; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2000

Regional economic activities require materials that can be extracteddomestically or imported from other regions. Analysis of optimalpatterns ofcombined economic development and materials use should be discussedinrelation to trade and the environment. A model is presented thatoptimiseslong-term...

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Green agrowth as a third option : removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2015

The debate on growth versus the environment is usually summarized as optimists believing in limitless growth versus … pessimists seeing environmental and resource limits to growth. This opposition defines the main strategies: namely, striving for … green growth versus some anti-growth approach. In this paper I argue that we should not feel obliged to choose between these …

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Sector-level tests of the feasibility of green growth : carbon intensity versus economic and productivity growth indicators

Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. … - 2015

In this paper we present a sector-based approach to investigate whether green growth - combining economic growth with … dollar of output (what we will call carbon intensity) and on the other growth in economic output and labor productivity, at …. The findings are similar for the two types of CI indicators. The bad news for green growth is that relatively clean …

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