Augmenting the World Bank's estimates: Ireland's genuine savings through boom and bust

The World Bank computes estimates of Genuine Savings (GS), a leading indicator of sustainable development, for most countries. A well-established literature has called for methodological enhancement. This paper presents augmented estimates of Irish GS throughout a period of unprecedented economic expansion and decline (1990–2016). A time-series constructed predominantly from national sources includes the most comprehensive coverage of pollutants...