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Development Economics Paper

Valutation and Evaluation: Measuring the Quality of Life and Evaluating Policy

Partha Dasgupta

This paper is about measuring social well-being and evaluating policy. Part I is concerned with the links between the two, while Parts II and III, respectively, are devoted to the development of appropriate methods of me...Read more...

June 2000

Development Economics Paper

Decentralization Schemes, Cost-Benefit-Analysis, and Net National Product as a Measure of Social Well-Being

Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Maler

This paper is about net national product (NNP). We are concerned with what NNP means, what it should include, what it offers us and, therefore, why we may be interested in it. We show that NNP, properly defined, can be u...Read more...

October 1998

Development Economics Paper

The Economics of Poverty in Poor Countries

Partha Dasgupta

This article examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment, on the one hand, and degradation of the local environmental-resource base and civic disconnection, on ...Read more...

January 1998

Development Economics Paper

Population, Consumption and Resources: Ethical Issues

Partha Dasgupta

This article is about the concept of optimum population and consumption. Even though it is primarily concerned with foundational issues, the various ideas that have been discussed in the literature are tested in the cont...Read more...

July 1997

Development Economics Paper

The Economics of Food

Partha Dasgupta

In this article I argue that, in contrast to what is implicitly assumed in many popular writings on food security in the future, the interface that connects the problems of population growth, poverty, environmental degra...Read more...

July 1997