Sustainability matters

Charles-Henri DiMaria

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2014, vol. 48, issue 3, 1257-1269

Abstract: This document aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment analysis framework that allows for negative output. In this framework countries use two inputs: capital and labour and seeks to maximize output and adjusted net saving. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a sustainability productivity index. The higher the indicator is the higher productivity is and the probability of targeting sustainability. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Weak sustainability; Adjusted net savings; Productivity; Technical change; Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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