首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
For the average American living in the United States is like having more than half a million dollars in wealth. So says a new st
For the average American living in the United States is like having more than half a million dollars in wealth. So says a new st
admin
2015-09-30
45
问题
For the average American living in the United States is like having more than half a million dollars in wealth. So says a new study from the World Bank, Where is the Wealth of Nations?: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century, which makes estimates of the contribution of natural, produced, and intangible capital to the aggregate wealth of 120 countries.
Why are Americans so well off? It’s not just because of America’s fruited plains and its alabaster cities. In fact, it turns out that such natural and man-made resources comprise a relatively small percentage of our wealth.
The World Bank study begins by defining natural capital as the sum of nonrenewable resources(including oil, natural gas, coal, and mineral resources), cropland, pastureland, forested areas, and protected areas. Produced capital is what many of us think of when we think of capital. It is the sum of machinery, equipment, and structures(including infrastructure)and urban land. The Bank then identifies intangible capital as the difference between total wealth and all produced and natural capital. Intangible capital encompasses raw labor; human capital, which includes the sum of the knowledge, skills, and know-how possessed by population; as well as the level of trust in a society and the quality of its formal and informal social institutions.
Once the analytical framework is set up, what the researchers at the World Bank find is fascinating. "The most striking aspect of the wealth estimates is the high values for intangible capital. Nearly 85 percent of the countries in our sample have an intangible capital share of total wealth greater than 50 percent," write the researchers. They further note that years of schooling and a rule-of-law index can account for 90 percent of the variation in intangible capital. In other words, the more highly educated a country’s people are and the more honest and fair its legal system is, the wealthier it is.
Let’s consider a few cases. The country with the highest per capita wealth is Switzerland at $ 648,000. The United States is fourth at $ 513,000.
So if every American has $ 513,000 in capital, where is it? The vast majority of it is amassed in our political and economic institutions and our educations. The natural wealth in rich countries like the U. S. is a tiny proportion of their overall wealth—typically 1 to 3 percent—yet they have higher amounts of natural capital than poor countries. Cropland, pastures and forests are more valuable in rich countries because they can be combined with other capital like machinery and strong property rights to produce more value. Machinery, buildings, roads, and so forth account for 17 percent of the rich countries’ total wealth. And 80 percent of the wealth of rich countries consists of intangible capital. "Rich countries are largely rich because of the skills of their populations and the quality of the institutions supporting economic activity," argues the World Bank study.
By saying "the analytical framework" in the 4th paragraph, the author refers to______.
选项
A、what intangible capital encompasses
B、the definition of three kinds of capital
C、the approach taken for scientific inquiry
D、both formal and informal social institutions
答案
B
解析
第三段是“the world Bank study”对三种资产下的定义。根据第三、四段的上下文,B应为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/PRzZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
【C1】______wehearmuchaboutthe"newfather",themanwho【C2】______anactiveroleintheday-todaycareofhischildren,ther
Advancesincomputersanddatanetworksinspirevisionsofafuture"informationeconomy"inwhicheveryonewillhave(1)_____t
LordByron’swordsmean______.Dr.Singerthinksmenaremoresuitabletomaintainjusticeandissuepunishmentthanwomenbeca
Allanimalsmustrest,butdotheyreallysleepasweknowit?Theanswertothisquestionseemsobvious.Ifananimalregularly
IncomeinequalityintheUnitedStateremainedrelativelystableforaperiodofnearlyfortyyears.Beginninginthe1970’s,ho
IncomeinequalityintheUnitedStateremainedrelativelystableforaperiodofnearlyfortyyears.Beginninginthe1970’s,ho
Accordingtothetext,whichofthefollowingistrueaboutthenewschool?Wecaninferfromthelastparagraphthat______.
A"LOSTTRIBE"thatreachedAmericafromAustraliamayhavebeen.thefirstNativeAmericans,accordingtoanewtheory.(46
Manyteachersbelievethattheresponsibilitiesforlearningliewiththestudent.(1)_____alongreadingassignmentisgiven,
TheU.S.SecretService,whichstudies"targetedviolence",providesinsightontheurgencyoftheneedinits2002"SafeSchool
随机试题
阅读《炉中煤》的第一节,回答文后问题。啊,我年轻的女郎!我不辜负你的殷勤,你也不要辜负了我的思量。我为我心爱的人儿,燃到了这般模样!为什么本节采用了拟人化的手法?
下列关于种植体周围软组织的说法,错误的是
按照国际通用WHO糖尿病病因学分型的标准,属于胰岛素抵抗的是
甲与乙签订《协议》,由乙以自己名义代甲购房,甲全权使用房屋并获取收益。乙与开发商和银行分别签订了房屋买卖合同和贷款合同。甲把首付款和月供款给乙,乙再给开发商和银行,房屋登记在乙名下。后甲要求乙过户,乙主张是自己借款购房。下列哪一选项是正确的?(2015/3
2018年3月1日,甲公司向乙公司借款1000万元,双方约定,借款期限1年,年利率40%。乙公司在将借款给甲公司时,直接将利息预先扣除。为确保甲公司到期履行债务,甲公司将一套生产设备抵押给乙公司,并办理了抵押登记。另外,甲公司董事张某为该笔借款提供了一般保
下图中(a)为某08时海平面气压分布图(单位:百帕),(b)显示的是④地24小时内风的变化。读图,回答下题。锋通过④地的时间可能为()。
那种认为只伤害自己而不伤害别人就行的态度,实际上是忽视了人们彼此之间的相互依存关系。破坏自己的生活或者健康就意味着不能帮助家庭成员或者社会;不仅如此,它也意味着要耗费社会的食物、健康服务和教育方面的有限资源,却不能完全地回报于社会。下面哪项最能支持
微分方程xy’+2y=sinx满足条件的特解为____________.
Theimmunesystemisequalincomplexitytothecombinedintricaciesofthebrainandnervoussystem.Thesuccessoftheimmune
Awisemanoncesaidthattheonlythingnecessaryforthetriumphofevilisforgoodmentodonothing.So,asapoliceof
最新回复
(
0
)