Sustainability and Inequality in Human Development

Eric Neumayer

No HDRP-2011-04, Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present) from Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Abstract: This paper analyzes the theoretical and empirical links between inequality in human development on the one hand and sustainability on the other. It specifically looks at causality in both directions. Inequality in various dimensions of human development is analyzed with respect to both weak and strong sustainability, where weak sustainability presumes substitutability among different forms of capital, while strong sustainability reject substitutability and calls for preservation of so-called critical forms of natural capital independent of the amount of investment into other forms of capital.

Keywords: Inequality; human development; sustainability; natural capital; environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 O15 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2011-11
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Published as background research for the 2011 Human Development Report.

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