Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63265 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2005/05
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This study, relying on an economic-theoretical approach to index numbers, proposes a framework for incorporating environmental indicators to the measurement of human well-being. Furthermore this study also proposes an improvement index which alleviates the well-known deficiency of across-time comparison of the deprivation index. The advantage of the proposed index is that it does not require normative judgement in the selection of weights to aggregate over constituent indices. Rather, within an activity analysis framework, optimally chosen weights are determined by the data. In developing the index, due emphasis is put on production with negative externalities, and directional distance functions—a very recent analytical device—are employed as a major tool to construct quantity indexes and improvement indexes.
Subjects: 
well-being
environment
indexes
measurement
JEL: 
Q51
D63
ISBN: 
9291906689
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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