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The changing wealth of nations 2018 : building a sustainable future

Lange, Glenn-Marie (ed.); Wodon, Quentin (ed.); … - 2018

"Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth the assets such as infrastructure, forests, minerals, and human capital that produce GDP. In contrast, corporations routinely report on both their income and assets to assess their...

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Prizes for Basic Research - Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History

Aizenman, Joshua; Noy, Ilan - 2013

This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. We rely on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global economic and historical trends. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which scale or threshold effects...

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The Relative Richness of the Poor? Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Economic Growth

Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; de Gregorio, Jose - 2005

Are natural resources a blessing or a curse? Bravo-Ortega and De Gregorio present a model in which natural resources have a positive effect on the level of income and a negative effect on its growth rate. The positive and permanent effect on income implies a welfare gain. There is a growth...

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The changing wealth of nations 2018 : building a sustainable future

Lange, Glenn-Marie - 2018

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Key Findings -- Why Should We Measure Wealth? -- What Is New in This Version of The Changing Wealth of Nations? -- Global and Regional Trends from 1995 to 2014 -- Natural Capital and Development --...

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Why standard measures of human capital are misleading

Hanushek, Eric Alan - In: Han gug gae bal yeon gu 37 (2015) 2, pp. 23-40

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A brief introduction to human capital measures

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2020

the World Bank (Lange et al., 2018) and by the United Nations Environmental Program and the Urban Institute of Kyushu … the University of Washington (Lim et al., 2018), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2019), the World Bank … (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, 2018), and the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum …

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Cross-country data on the quantity of schooling : a selective survey and some quality measures

Fuente, Ángel de la; Doménech, Rafael - 2014 - Revised, October 2014

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Measuring human capital

Angrist, Noam; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; … - 2019

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …

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Intelligence, human capital, and economic growth : a Bayesian averaging of classical estimates (BACE) approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - In: Journal of economic growth 11 (2006) 1, pp. 71-93

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Choosing a human capital measure : educational attainment gaps and rankings

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2015

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