Costa Rica, superstar? some reflections on the global drivers and bottlenecks of the happy planet index
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Keywords
Ecological and environmental phenomena; ecological footprint; globalization; Happy Planet Index; inequality; migration; military expenditures;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
- F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
- Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
- H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
- Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2011-09-22 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2011-09-22 (Economics of Happiness)
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