Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ausg
ISBN:
9781849508414
Series Statement:
Contributions to economic analysis Volume 262
Content:
This book studies the relationships between economic growth and social welfare and the policy implications of these relationships for development. Understanding the relationships between economic growth and social welfare is an enduring issue within contemporary development economics and welfare economics. These relationships are analysed in this book by operationalising normative social choice theory. Normative social choice theory is an appropriate approach as it explicitly incorporates society's preferences, values and choices in determining how social welfare should be defined and measured. Two approaches, aggregate and hierarchical, are developed and empirically applied to Thailand for a twenty-five year period 1975-1999. This book concludes that in terms of social welfare, economic growth cannot always be assumed desirable. What is needed is social welfare enhancing economic growth. A review of the policy implications of this finding is also undertaken
Content:
Introduction / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Economic growth and social welfare in Thailand / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Economic growth and social welfare : a hierarchical approach / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Contemporary development issues and economic growth / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Welfare analysis of economic growth on social welfare / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Conclusions and summary / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Economic growth and social welfare : an aggregate approach / Sardar M.N. Islam -- Empirical application of the aggregate approach / Sardar M.N. Islam. - This book studies the relationships between economic growth and social welfare and the policy implications of these relationships for development. Understanding the relationships between economic growth and social welfare is an enduring issue within contemporary development economics and welfare economics. These relationships are analysed in this book by operationalising normative social choice theory. Normative social choice theory is an appropriate approach as it explicitly incorporates society's preferences, values and choices in determining how social welfare should be defined and measured. Two approaches, aggregate and hierarchical, are developed and empirically applied to Thailand for a twenty-five year period 1975-1999. This book concludes that in terms of social welfare, economic growth cannot always be assumed desirable. What is needed is social welfare enhancing economic growth. A review of the policy implications of this finding is also undertaken
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-281) and index
,
Online-Ausg.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780444515650
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Clarke, Matthew Economic growth and social welfare Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2004 ISBN 0444515658
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Thailand
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Soziale Wohlfahrt
;
Bibliografie
DOI:
10.1108/S0573-8555(2004)262
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