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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Language: | English |
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World Scientific Publishing
2002-01-01
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Series: | Asian Development Review |
Online Access: | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S011611050200009X |