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Sustainability and Inequality in Human Development


Eric Neumayer


London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

August 5, 2011


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This paper analyzes the theoretical and empirical links between inequality in human development on the one hand and sustainability on the other. It specifically looks at causality in both directions. Inequality in various dimensions of human development is analyzed with respect to both weak and strong sustainability, where weak sustainability presumes substitutability among different forms of capital, while strong sustainability reject substitutability and calls for preservation of so-called critical forms of natural capital independent of the amount of investment into other forms of capital.

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Date posted: August 5, 2011 ; Last revised: April 23, 2013

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Neumayer, Eric, Sustainability and Inequality in Human Development (August 5, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1905536 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1905536

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