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The relationship between economic development and social welfare: A new adjusted GDP measure of welfare

Islam, Sardar M. N. and Clarke, Matthew 2002, The relationship between economic development and social welfare: A new adjusted GDP measure of welfare, Social indicators research, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 201-228.

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Title The relationship between economic development and social welfare: A new adjusted GDP measure of welfare
Author(s) Islam, Sardar M. N.
Clarke, Matthew
Journal name Social indicators research
Volume number 57
Issue number 2
Start page 201
End page 228
Publisher Springer
Place of publication Dordrecht, Netherlands
Publication date 2002-02
ISSN 0303-8300
1573-0921
Keyword(s) GDP
development
Thailand
welfare
Summary Existing literature focuses on the issue of preparation of social welfare measurements on the basis of an unadjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This paper extends this method to incorporate cost-benefit analysis of economic growth in a growing economy in calculating the adjusted GDP, termed as the cost-benefit (CB)-adjusted GDP. This approach is empirically applied to Thailand. There are stark differences between GDP per capita and CB adjusted GDP per capita rates for this period.This paper concludes that GDP can be used as an indicator of social welfare if the GDP estimates are undertaken within a cost-benefit analysis framework.
Language eng
Field of Research 140202 Economic Development and Growth
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30009425

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of International and Political Studies
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