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Social Sustainability, Poverty, and Income: An Empirical Exploration

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dc.contributor.authorCuesta, Jose
dc.contributor.authorMadrigal, Lucia
dc.contributor.authorPecorari, Natalia
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-14T19:24:27Z
dc.date.available2022-06-14T19:24:27Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.description.abstractSocial sustainability is often poorly understood and vaguely defined, despite growing appreciation of its relevance as a concept. This paper advances the empirical understanding of social sustainability by constructing a global database of 71 indicators across 193 countries and 37 territories between 2016 and 2020. The indicators are flexibly clustered around four dimensions—social inclusion, resilience, social cohesion, and process legitimacy—for which measurement indices are constructed. A simple empirical analysis using the database confirms that social sustainability is positively and strongly associated with per capita income, negatively and strongly associated with poverty, and negatively but weakly associated with income inequality. Much remains to be analyzed to understand the interactions between dimensions, but the results underscore that social sustainability matters not only in itself, but also to reduce poverty. Furthermore, extending access to markets, basic public services, and social assistance needs to be complemented with strengthening process legitimacy and social cohesion if inequality is to be reduced.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099915206132218553/IDU05fa103b00466704a130bfec06158420e23ee
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10085
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37543
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Papers;10085
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectSOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY GLOBAL DATABASE
dc.subjectSOCIAL INCLUSION
dc.subjectRESILIENCE
dc.subjectSOCIAL COHESION
dc.subjectPROCESS LEGITIMACY
dc.subjectSOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY INDICTORS
dc.subjectSOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY MEASUREMENT
dc.subjectEMPIRICS
dc.subjectSOCIAL ANALYSIS
dc.subjectSOCIAL POLICY DATA
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.titleSocial Sustainability, Poverty, and Incomeen
dc.title.subtitleAn Empirical Explorationen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.date.disclosure2022-06-13
okr.date.lastmodified2022-06-13T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099915206132218553/IDU05fa103b00466704a130bfec06158420e23ee
okr.guid099915206132218553
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10085
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okr.identifier.reportWPS10085
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okr.topicSocial Development::Social Analysis
okr.unitSocial PM (SSIGL)
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