To date, the natural capital accounts compiled in the changing wealth of nations (CWON) reports have not included renewable energy assets. This is in part because few empirical studies of renewable energy...
The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 by the World Bank tracks the total wealth of 141 countries between 1995 and 2014 (Lange, Wodon and Carey 2018). The total wealth of a country consists of the following...
The Changing Wealth of Nations (CWON) applies wealth accounts to analytics for three areas of major policy concern: the linkages between natural capital and human capital, climate change, and sustainability...
National wealth, measured comprehensively to include all assets—produced, human, and natural capital—generates national income. Sustained economic growth over the long term requires investment to build...
The World Bank’s Changing Wealth of Nations 2021 (CWON2021) report provides data for natural, human, produced and financial capital for 146 countries (World Bank, 2021). The report provides these wealth...
This report starts with a broad overview of the challenges to constructing global fisheries asset accounts, and the data sources used. Subsequent sections document data and methodology in much greater...
The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021 provides an updated database and analysis of the world’s wealth accounts spanning 146 countries, with annual data from 1995 to 2018. It also contains the widest set...
This report describes work carried out by a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota to improve calculations of agricultural wealth which comprise an important component of the Changing Wealth...
The World Bank is preparing a new edition of its wealth report, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021: Managing Assets for the Future (P169304, CWON 2021), to be launched in 2021. CWON 2021 will apply wealth...
Forests are an important asset in many countries both for the market goods they provide, like timber, and for the non-market goods and services they provide, like regulating hydrological flows. These benefits...