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    Value of Forest - NTF (Non Timber Fores) ($)

    Forest - NTF is one part of the total Wealth Estimate: "Non Timber wealth estimate is obtained as the present value of the returns from annual non-timber goods and benefits derived from services provided by forests using a discount rate of 4 percent and over a 25 year time horizon." (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/total_and_per_capita_wealt..., 2005-02-09)

    Value of Protected Areas ($)

    As part of the total wealth estimates "Protected areas are estimated as the opportunity cost of preservation i.e. the minimum of wealth derived from alternative uses of land such as growing crops and livestock."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/total_and_per_capita_wealt..., 2015-02-09)

    Value of Pasture Land ($)

    As part of the total wealth estimates "Pastureland wealth is calculated as the net present value of the return to land (rents from selling livestock products) using a discount rate of 4 percent over a 25 year time horizon."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/total_and_per_capita_wealt..., 2015-02-09)

    Value of Subsoil Assets ($)

    As part of the total wealth estimates "Subsoil assets are sum of oil, natural gas, coal, and minerals."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/total_and_per_capita_wealt..., 2015-02-09)

    Value of Forest - Timber ($)

    As part of the total wealth estimates "Timber wealth is calculated as the present discounted value of rents from roundwoood and fuelwood production, discounted at 4 percent and over the time to exhaustion of the forest (if unsustainably managed)."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/total_and_per_capita_wealt..., 2015-02-09)

    Total wealth estimate ($)

    "The Wealth of Nations dataset provides country level data on comprehensive wealth, adjusted net saving, and non-renewable resource rents indicators, as published in "The Changing Wealth of Nations" (2011)."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/wealth-of-nations, 23-01-2015)

    "Total wealth is present value of future consumption that is sustainable, discounted at a rate of time preference of 1.5 percent, over 25 years.

    Depletion Adjusted Saving (DAS) =

    Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (current US$)

    Adjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide and particulate emissions damage.
    (retrieved 2-2-2014 from Worldbank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.ADJ.SVNG.CD)

    Environmental Vulnerability Index

    The Environmental Vulnerability Index is a measure to characterize the relative severity of various types of environmental issues suffered by individual nations and some regions of the planet.

    Global Gender Gap Index

    The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups.

    The Global Gender Gap Index examines the gap between men and women in four fundamental categories
    (subindexes): Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival and
    Political Empowerment.

    Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)

    "Discriminatory social institutions are defined as the formal and informal laws, attitudes and practices that restrict women’s and girls’ access to rights, justice and empowerment opportunities. These are captured in a multi-faceted approach by SIGI’s variables that combine qualitative and quantitative data, taking into account both the de jure and de facto discrimination of social institutions, through information on laws, attitudes and practices.

    Technology Achievement Index

    The technology achievement index (TAI) aims to capture how well a country is creating and diffusing technology and building a human skill base—reflecting capacity to participate in the technological innovations of the network age. This composite index measures achievements, not potential, effort or inputs.

    Water Exploitation Index (WEI)

    The water exploitation index (WEI) is the mean annual total abstraction of freshwater as percentage of the mean annual total renewable freshwater resource at the country level,.

    Human development index (HDI)

    Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development—a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living.

    http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi
    (Retrieved: 26 January 2015)

    GDP (current US$)

    "GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using single year official exchange rates.

    Crop production index

    Crop production index shows agricultural production for each year relative to the base period 2004-2006. It includes all crops except fodder crops.

    Livestock production index

    "Livestock production index includes meat and milk from all sources, dairy products such as cheese, and eggs, honey, raw silk, wool, and hides and skins."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.PRD.LVSK.XD, 2015-05-14)

    Foreign direct investment, net outflows (% of GDP)

    "Foreign direct investment are the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world and is divided by GDP."

    Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

    "Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels)."
    (World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TM.VAL.FOOD.ZS.UN, 2015-04-14)

    Employment in industry (% of total employment)

    People who work for public or private employers and receive remuneration in wages, salaries, commission, tips, etc. working in industry and includes mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction and public utilities.
    (Source: WorldBank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.IND.EMPL.ZS, retrieved 2-2-2015)

    Public spending in environmentally related RD, % of total public spending

    Government appropriations or outlays for Research and Development (GBAORD) expressed as percentage of all-purpose government outlays for Research and Development.. (source: OECD, http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=GREEN_GROWTH)

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