ON THE ISSUE OF ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL PROGRESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
Currently there has been a wide discussion on further interpretation of the GDP as a basic indicator of economic development and the need for considering adding several other indicators specifying its performance capabilities. The experience of analytical studies of socio-economic level of the country shows that traditional macroeconomic indicators cover sustainable development as a whole with an emphasis on a particular aspect failing to characterize the existing situation of sustainable development amidst globalization in an integrated manner, moreover - from the point of view of its effective regulation. To solve this issue reproduction approach needs to be applied.
Growth rate of GDP at the comparable prices less added value in the point of blank turnover of economics, which represents the difference between the factual volume of exploited material resources and minimum of resource-intensiveness of final consuming produce, can be suggested as an alternative criterion of social progress. The received indicator may be called - the rate of effective GDP growth. It is possible to include the growth rate of the effective per capita GDP into the target group of indicators of sustainable development for the period of up to 2030, categorizing them as «gray». It can also be applied in addition to GDP, and included into the category of indicators responsible for measuring the progress in ensuring sustainable development.
Due to the regional specifics of the arid zone with the irrigated agriculture for addressing the problem of appropriate statistical valuation of water usage effectiveness in all sectors it would be reasonable to use the indicators of capital and current expenditures on melioration per irrigated square, including the expenditures on the introduction and exploitation of water-saving irrigation technologies.
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Atayev A.M. ON THE ISSUE OF ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL PROGRESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Voprosy statistiki. 2016;(11):37-44. (In Russ.)
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