"Sustainable development" in Pacific micro-economies
"Sustainable development" in Pacific micro-economies
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太平洋微观经济的“可持续发展”
DOI：
10.1016/0305-750x(86)90033-1
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发表时间：
1986
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
G. Bertram
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作者：
G. Bertram
本文件认为，一些太平洋小岛屿经济体的核心经济问题是保持和加强其食利社会的地位，以及与这种地位相适应的相对较高的生活水平（维斯于其他发展中国家而言）。该区域大多数发展规划的重点是“可持续”扩大生产活动，但在这些小国却方向错误。它不是生产性活动，而是租金权利，必须随着时间的推移而维持和复制。援助、集邮和移民汇款不仅仅是当地收入的补充;它们是现代经济的基础。尽管传统的“发展项目”排挤了援助和汇款权利，但它们的影响是贫困化。有人对最近关于恢复可持续生计经济的论点提出批评。
This paper argues that the central economic problem for a number of very small Pacific Island economies is the preservation and enhancement of their status as rentier societies, and the relatively high living standards (vis-à-visother developing countries) which go with the status. The thrust of most development planning in the region, with its focus on “sustainable” expansion of productive activity, is misdirected in these small countries. It is not productive activity, but rent entitlements, which must be sustained and reproduced over time. Aid, philately, and migrant remittances are not merely supplements to local incomes; they are the foundations of the modern economy. Insofar as conventional “development projects” crowd out aid and remittance entitlements, their impact is immiserizing. Criticism is offered of a recent argument for returning to sustainable subsistence economies.