Australia's Genuine Progress Indicator Revisited (1962 - 2013)

dc.contributor.authorKenny, Daniel C
dc.contributor.authorCostanza, Robert
dc.contributor.authorDowsley, Tom
dc.contributor.authorJackson, Nichelle
dc.contributor.authorJosol, Jairus
dc.contributor.authorKubiszewski, Ida
dc.contributor.authorNarulla, Harkiran
dc.contributor.authorSese, Saioa
dc.contributor.authorSutanto, Anna
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-04T00:27:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2022-09-18T08:17:46Z
dc.description.abstractThe Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) has been proposed as an alternative to GDP as an indicator of national progress. GPI includes 26 components that adjust GDP for inequality, include household and volunteer work, and subtract a number of social and environmental costs best seen as negatives. The GPI has been estimated for over 20 countries and many states and territories. This paper updates Australia's GPI to determine whether Australia as a nation has progressed overall since the 1960s and compares two alternative approaches that differ in some important details. We find that despite these differing approaches, we find that GPI remained largely stagnant from the 1960s through to the 1990s, and only at the turn of the century has GPI started to increase, despite increasing negative environmental costs. While GPI is well placed to serve as an improved Australian and global measure of national progress, further work is needed to measure national well-being and support its integration into political decision-making and to include the full range of subjective and objective indicators. Ultimately, this paper argues that while GPI is well placed to serve as a new Australian and global measure of well-being, we stress the need for an alternative indicator, like GPI, to supplement GDP and to better inform policy decisions.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0921-8009en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/311165
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.rights© 2019 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceEcological Economicsen_AU
dc.titleAustralia's Genuine Progress Indicator Revisited (1962 - 2013)en_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage10en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKenny, Daniel (Danny), College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCostanza, Robert, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDowsley, Tom, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationJackson, Nichelle, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationJosol, Jairus, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKubiszewski, Ida, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationNarulla, Harkiran, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSese, Saioa, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSutanto, Anna, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationThompson, Jonathan, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu5278179@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKenny, Daniel (Danny), u5420435en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidCostanza, Robert, u5278179en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidDowsley, Tom, t2072en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidJackson, Nichelle, t2019en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidJosol, Jairus, u5485735en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKubiszewski, Ida, u5278167en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidNarulla, Harkiran, t2020en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidSese, Saioa, t2021en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidSutanto, Anna, t2022en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidThompson, Jonathan, t2023en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor389902 - Ecological economicsen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1072228xPUB10en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume158en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.025en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85058627695
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000458222400001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1072228en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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