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Sustainability matters

Author: Charles-Henri DiMaria

Published in: Quality & Quantity | Issue 3/2014

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This document aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment analysis framework that allows for negative output. In this framework countries use two inputs: capital and labour and seeks to maximize output and adjusted net saving. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a sustainability productivity index. The higher the indicator is the higher productivity is and the probability of targeting sustainability.

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Title: Sustainability matters
Author: Charles-Henri DiMaria
Publication date: 01-05-2014
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Quality & Quantity / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-013-9833-5

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