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The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach
This paper presents a new analytical framework for assessing spatial disparities among countries. It takes for granted that the analysis of a country’s performance cannot be limited solely to either economic or social factors. The aim of the paper is to combine relevant economic and ‘non-economic’ (...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19966915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9464-3 |
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author | Cracolici, Maria Francesca Cuffaro, Miranda Nijkamp, Peter |
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description | This paper presents a new analytical framework for assessing spatial disparities among countries. It takes for granted that the analysis of a country’s performance cannot be limited solely to either economic or social factors. The aim of the paper is to combine relevant economic and ‘non-economic’ (mainly social) aspects of a country’s performance in an integrated logical framework. Based on this idea, a structural simultaneous equation model will be presented and estimated in order to explore the direction of the causal relationship between economic and non-economic aspects of a country’s performance. Furthermore, an exploration of the trajectory that each country has registered over time along a virtuous path will be offered. By means of a matrix persistency/transition analysis, the countries will be classified in clusters of good/bad performance. One of the most interesting conclusions concerns the inability of most countries to turn the higher educational skills of the population into greater economic performance over time. In addition, our analysis also shows that making an accurate picture record and formulating related policy aiming at environmental care is highly desirable. It is surprising that only a few countries have reached a favourable economic and environmental performance simultaneously. |
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spelling | pubmed-27858962009-12-04 The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach Cracolici, Maria Francesca Cuffaro, Miranda Nijkamp, Peter Soc Indic Res Article This paper presents a new analytical framework for assessing spatial disparities among countries. It takes for granted that the analysis of a country’s performance cannot be limited solely to either economic or social factors. The aim of the paper is to combine relevant economic and ‘non-economic’ (mainly social) aspects of a country’s performance in an integrated logical framework. Based on this idea, a structural simultaneous equation model will be presented and estimated in order to explore the direction of the causal relationship between economic and non-economic aspects of a country’s performance. Furthermore, an exploration of the trajectory that each country has registered over time along a virtuous path will be offered. By means of a matrix persistency/transition analysis, the countries will be classified in clusters of good/bad performance. One of the most interesting conclusions concerns the inability of most countries to turn the higher educational skills of the population into greater economic performance over time. In addition, our analysis also shows that making an accurate picture record and formulating related policy aiming at environmental care is highly desirable. It is surprising that only a few countries have reached a favourable economic and environmental performance simultaneously. Springer Netherlands 2009-04-09 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2785896/ /pubmed/19966915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9464-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Cracolici, Maria Francesca Cuffaro, Miranda Nijkamp, Peter The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach |
title | The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach |
title_full | The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach |
title_fullStr | The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach |
title_short | The Measurement of Economic, Social and Environmental Performance of Countries: A Novel Approach |
title_sort | measurement of economic, social and environmental performance of countries: a novel approach |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785896/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19966915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9464-3 |
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