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Australia: a land of missed opportunities?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2017
Abstract
Comprehensive Investment (CI) may provide an indicator of future changes in a country's per capita consumption. The authors explore the utility of the CI indicator for Australia by constructing CI data since 1861 and by estimating their relationship with changes in future consumption over periods of 50 years ahead. The CI measures include changes in natural, produced and human capital, and make allowance for exogenous technological progress. The results are used to consider how Australia's natural capital exploitation influenced the consumption of future generations. Further, the authors gauge if low CI relative to other leading OECD countries resulted in lower consumption levels in Australia over time than feasible, had it saved more.
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- Environment and Development Economics , Volume 22 , Special Issue 6: Recent Advances in Empirical Analysis on Growth and Environment , December 2017 , pp. 674 - 698
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017
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