Environmental and natural resource accounting has heretofore mostly been conducted in a national income accounting context. Yet income inequality and poverty statistics are often exceedingly optimistic absent an adequate accounting of environmental losses. Following Khan's study on Bangladesh...

The use of GDP growth as an indicator of national progress has many critics. Ahluwalia and Chenery noted that GDP growth places greater weight on the income growth of richer income groups, and proposed distribution-neutral and pro-poor alternatives. More recently, studies by the World Resources...

Accounting for environmental damage is relevant to how one measures the extent and severity of inequality and poverty, and the question of ecological distribution - how the costs associated with environmental damage are distributed across the population - is critical. Following Khan’s (1997)...