Environmental Damage and the Mismeasure of Poverty and Inequality: Applications to Indonesia and the Philippines

Environmental and natural resource accounting has heretofore mostly been conducted in a national income accounting context. Yet income inequality and poverty statistics are often exceedingly optimistic absent an adequate accounting of environmental losses. Following Khan’s study on Bangladesh (1997)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mariano Torras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2002-01-01
Series:Asian Development Review
Online Access:https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S011611050200009X