Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth—the assets such as infrastructure, forests,

National income is underpinned by a country's wealth--measured comprehensively to include all assets, produced capital, human capital, natural capital and net f

Countries regularly track gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of their economic progress, but not wealth, which includes the assets such as infrastruct

The book presents estimates of total wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pieces: produ

This book is about development and measuring development progress. While precise definitions may vary, development is, at heart, a process of building wealth, t