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Title

Sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific : studies using the genuine progress indicator / edited by Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Lawn, Philip A.
• Clarke, Matthew, 1969-

Description

xiii, 378 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"The book shows that the three wealthy nations - Australia, New Zealand, and Japan - have long reached a level of GDP beyond which further growth is detrimental to their sustainable welfare while the four poorer nations - China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam - are fast approaching a similar situation, but at much lower per capita levels of sustainable welfare. In view of these results, it is argued that genuine progress in the Asia-Pacific region requires the wealthy nations to focus on qualitative improvement (development) rather than GDP growth. As for the poorer nations, it is argued that population stabilisation demands urgent attention while the GDP growth required over the next two to three decades must be as clean, efficient, and equitable as possible." "Sustainable Welfare in the Asia-Pacific will appeal to a wide audience of academics and researchers in the areas of ecological, environmental and natural resource economics, development, green national accounting, and environmental management. It will also find a readership in policy-makers, environmental managers and NGOs, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Advances in ecological economics

Uniform Title

Advances in ecological economics

Subject

• Economic development > Asia
• Economic development > Pacific Area
• Sustainable development > Asia
• Sustainable development > Pacific Area
• Public welfare > Asia
• Public welfare > Pacific Area
• 83.13 welfare economics
• Economic development
• Public welfare
• Sustainable development
• Regional development
• Economic growth
• Asia
• Pacific Area
• Pacific region
• Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Herman Daly -- Introduction to the Asia-Pacific region / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- Why is Gross Domestic Product an inadequate indicator of sustainable welfare? / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- What is the genuine Progress Indicator and how is it typically calculated? / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- In defence of the Genuine Progress Indicator / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke -- Genuine progress in Australia: time to rethink the growth objective / Philip Lawn -- Calculating the New Zealand Genuine Progress Indicator / Vicky Forgie, Garry McDonald, Yanjiao Zhang, Murray Patterson and Derrylea Hardy -- Genuine progress in Japan and the need for an open economy GPI / Matsuyo Makino -- Genuine progress in India: some further growth needed in the immediate future but population stabilisation needed immediately / Philip Lawn -- From GDP to the GPI: quantifying thirty-five years of development in China / Zonggou Wen, Yan Yang and Philip Lawn -- Genuine progress in Thailand: a systems-analysis approach / Matthew Clarke and Judith Shaw -- Genuine progress in Vietnam: the impact of the Doi Moi reforms / Vu Xuan Nguyet Hong, Matthew Clarke and Philip Lawn -- Genuine progress across the Asia-Pacific region: comparisons, trends, and policy implications / Philip Lawn and Matthew Clarke.

ISBN

• 9781847205018
• 1847205011

LCCN

2008927957

OCLC

• ocn190967893
• 190967893
• SCSB-14570801

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library