Individual components, that increase (+) and decrease (–) the value of GPI, are the following ones:
+ Personal consumption weighted by income distribution index
+ Value of household work and parenting
+ Value of higher education
+ Value of volunteer work
+ Services of consumer durables
+ Services of highways and streets
– Cost of crime
– Loss of leisure time
– Cost of unemployment
– Cost of consumer durables
– Cost of commuting
– Cost of household pollution abatement
– Cost of automobile accidents
– Cost of water pollution
– Cost of air pollution
– Cost of noise pollution
– Loss of wetlands
– Loss of farmland
-/+ Loss of forest area and damage from logging roads
– Depletion of nonrenewable energy resources
– Carbon dioxide emissions damage
– Cost of ozone depletion
+/- Net capital investment
+/- Net foreign borrowing
= GPI
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