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The changing wealth of nations 2018 : building a sustainable future / Glenn-Marie Lange, Quentin Wodon, and Keven Carey, editors.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2018Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (23 entries) : 72 images ; digital filesContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786849014
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 330.9 23
LOC classification:
  • HC59 .C436 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Executive summary -- Estimating the wealth of nations -- Richer or poorer? Global and regional trends in wealth from 1995 to 2014 -- Wealth accounts, adjusted net saving, and diversified development in resource-rich African countries -- Expanding measures of productivity to include natural capital -- The carbon wealth of nations: from rents to risks -- Human capital and the wealth of nations: global estimates and trends -- Gains in human capital wealth: what growth models tell us -- Intangible capital as the engine for development in Morocco -- Air pollution: impact on human health and wealth -- Subsidies reduce marine fisheries wealth -- Remote sensing and modeling to fill the gap in "missing" natural capital -- Appendix A: summary of methodology and data sources -- Appendix B: per capital wealth for 2014.
Abstract: The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future covers national wealth for 141 countries over 20 years (1995-2014) as the sum of produced capital, 19 types of natural capital, net foreign assets, and human capital overall as well as by gender and type of employment.

Includes bibliographical references.

Executive summary -- Estimating the wealth of nations -- Richer or poorer? Global and regional trends in wealth from 1995 to 2014 -- Wealth accounts, adjusted net saving, and diversified development in resource-rich African countries -- Expanding measures of productivity to include natural capital -- The carbon wealth of nations: from rents to risks -- Human capital and the wealth of nations: global estimates and trends -- Gains in human capital wealth: what growth models tell us -- Intangible capital as the engine for development in Morocco -- Air pollution: impact on human health and wealth -- Subsidies reduce marine fisheries wealth -- Remote sensing and modeling to fill the gap in "missing" natural capital -- Appendix A: summary of methodology and data sources -- Appendix B: per capital wealth for 2014.

The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future covers national wealth for 141 countries over 20 years (1995-2014) as the sum of produced capital, 19 types of natural capital, net foreign assets, and human capital overall as well as by gender and type of employment.

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