Documents et rapports
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Nature, socioeconomics and adaptation to natural disasters: new evidence from floods (anglais)
The authors analyze the determinants of fatalities in 2,194 large flood events in 108 countries between 1985 and 2008. Given that socioeconomic factors can affect mortality right in the aftermath of a...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5725 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Susana,Hamilton,Kirk E.,Vincent,Jeffrey R.
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The changing wealth of nations : measuring sustainable development in the new millennium (anglais)
This book is about development and measuring development progress. While precise definitions may vary, development is, at heart, a process of building wealth, the produced, natural, human, and institutional...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 58847 Date du document: 13 décembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lange, Glenn-Marie,Hamilton,Kirk E.,Ruta,Giovanni,Chakraborti,Lopamudra,Desai,Deval Sharad,Edens,Bram,Ferreira,Susana,Fraumeni, Barbara ,Jarvis,Michael,Kingsmill,William,Li,Haizheng
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Comprehensive wealth, intangible capital, and development (anglais)
Existing wealth estimates show that in most countries intangible capital is the largest share of total wealth. Intangible capital is calculated as the difference between total wealth and tangible (produced...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5452 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Susana,Hamilton,Kirk E.
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Comprehensive wealth and future consumption : accounting for population growth (anglais)
Economic theory predicts that the current change in national wealth, broadly defined to include natural and human capital as well as produced capital, determines whether the present value of future changes...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76248 Date du document: 25 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferreira,Susana,Hamilton,Kirk E.,Vincent,Jeffrey R.
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The World Bank economic review 22 (2) (anglais)
This issue includes the following: trade liberalization and growth: new evidence, by Romain Wacziarg and Karen Horn Welch; comprehensive wealth and future consumption: accounting for population growth...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 53728 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barham,Bradford L.,Bhargava,Alok,Cull,Robert J.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Docquier, Frédéric,Dreher,Axel,Effron,Laurie,Ferreira,Susana,Girma, Sourafel,Gitter,Seth Richard,Gong, Yundan,Görg, Holger,Hamilton,Kirk E.,Nunnenkamp, Peter,O'Ryan, Raúl,Sánchez, José Miguel,Thiele, Rainer,Vincent,Jeffrey R.,Wacziarg,Romain,Welch, Karen Horn