resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ideas4sust @JamilaHaider Here us the link to paper http://t.co/KE174yxhae in Revue d’ethnoécologie (paper is in English) May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @drk75 Sounds very interesting! Hope you make good progress. May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: NBER
Estimating welfare: another measure
New NBER paper Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow looks interesting. They propose a new summary statistic for a nation’s flows of welfare that combines data on consumption, leisure, inequality, and mortality. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Jones, economics, GDP, human wellbeing, NBER, Peter Klenow
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African Poverty is Falling
A new NBER working paper African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster than You Think! from economists Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy argues that African poverty has been rapidly falling across Africa since 1995. They use methods they use to look at … Continue reading