Transcript Sustainable Tourist Development in Italian Destinations

19th Advanced Summer School in Regional Science
GIS and Spatial Econometrics
4-12 July 2006
Groningen, The Netherlands
Economic Convergence vs.
Socio-Economic Convergence
M. Francesca CRACOLICI
University of Palermo
[email protected]
AIMS
• To assess performance of territorial area stressing social
aspects;
• To evaluate differences and development gaps among
territorial area
dimensions;
considering
economic
and
social
• To propose a compound measure of material and
immaterial wellbeing;
• To use spatial econometrics tools to investigate spatial
spillovers.
STYLIZED FACTS
1) International comparison on economic performance of
countries aimed to evaluate the level of development
or growth of them in terms of GDP;
2) This approach has strongly criticized
GDP index
is not able to catch the different dimensions of
wellbeing;
3) GDP
partial measure of a multi-dimensional
concept as wellbeing (see Sen 1985, 1987; Knan 1991
and Dasgupta 1990, 1993)
FRAMEWORK
Living Standards
(Hobijn and Franses 2001; Neumayer 2003; Dowrick et al. 2003)
•
Convergence in income levels is important similarity to study the
convergence in living standards;
•
To extent the evaluation of country’s performance at measures of living
standards;
•
High GDP necessary condition but not sufficient condition;
Quality of Growth
(see also UNDP 1996, Cracolici and Vassallo 2002).
CONCEPTUAL MODEL
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
COUNTRY PERFORMANCE
Quality of Growth
"People want to see their income levels and living standard improving, but
also converging to those of the better off” (Neumayer, 2003, p.277)
Material
Wellbeing
Economic Aspects
GDP or Consumption
or …… ??????
Social Aspects
Quality of Education
Social Services
Level of Pollution
or …… ????
Socio-Economic
Performance
Socio-Economic
Convergence
Immaterial
Wellbeing
OPEN QUESTIONS
• How to link material and immaterial wellbeing in
order to consider the spatial dimension (spatial
spillovers)?
• Could simultaneous spatial models be an useful
tool (see Keleijan and Pucha 2004; Florax et al.
2006)?