GPI理论研究及美国应用案例对我国的启示

Genuine Progress Indicator Methodology Study and the Inspiration of the Multi-scale Application Case in U.S.A.

采用GDP核算体系衡量国家和区域的发展存在明显的缺陷,真实发展指数GPI包括经济、社会和环境三个子帐户,包含了一些被GDP所忽略的成本和价值,构建了可量度的可持续发展指标体系来衡量区域经济健康程度和可持续发展能力。本文介绍了GPI的产生和组成帐户,对GPI核算框架与计算方法进行了研究,评介了美国不同区域尺度上的GPI核算应用案例,总结了GPI核算的优点与实施难点,并对在我国开展GPI核算提出了几点建议。

GDP has some obvious disadvantages in measuring the development progress of a nation and/or a region. Genuine Progress Indicator（GPI） includes three sub-accounts-economic, social and environmental ones. GPI puts into accounting system some of the cost and value which have been ignored by GDP. And it has been constructed to be a kind of measurable sustainability indicators to assess the healthy degree of regional economy and the capacity of sustainable progress. This article introduces the accounting framework and the methods of GPI, and reviews the case of multi-scale application in the USA. Through summarizing, the author put forward some advice to improve the development of GPI accounting application in China.