Intergenerational Equity and Human Development

Joaquim Silvestre

Chapter 14 in Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability, 2007, pp 252-287 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The last two hundred years have shown spectacular progress in the standard of living or quality of human life, at least for most people in the developed world, as evidenced by: the lengthening of the average lifespan, which has followed a linear trend in the last 160 years1 the increase in the amount of education per person the improvement in civil rights and the ability to exercise personal liberties the growth in labour productivity, allowing a higher level of material consumption for the same input of labour time.

Keywords: Human Development; Endogenous Growth; Capital Good; Generation Zero; Primary Good (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230236769_14

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