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Summary:

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.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Lange, Glenn-Marie , editor

Wodon, Quentin , editor

Carey, Kevin, 1967- , editor

World Bank , issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Economic indicators

Sustainable development

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (23 entries) : 72 images.

Call Numbers:

HC59 .C436 2018eb

ISBNs:

146481046X [Invalid]
9781464810466 [Invalid]
9781464810473 [Invalid]
9781786849014 (electronic version)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018304587 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1090381125

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00567777 (source: CaBNVSL)
wbchanging2018 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781786849014