This social welfare calculator uses a high level approach to estimate the average improvement in living standards arising from your purchase in the source country.
Measuring social welfare is a complex issue which can make quantifying social improvements a difficult business. Yet if we are to weigh the social benefits from increased economic activity in a developing country against the CO2 impacts of transporting goods from that country, we need some idea of the magnitude of both the social improvements, and CO2 emissions involved.
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