“As we prepare to enter the twenty-first century, the world faces two important challenges to both its political stability and its potential for sustainable growth. The first is the growing gap between the science-rich countries of the North and the science-poor countries of the South in the production and use of scientific and technological knowledge. The second is the increasing complexity of...

The substantiations for the use of indicator national wealth, including produced, natural and human capital, as a tool managing sustainability economic growth state are given. Considering that at present measurement National Wealth in Republic Belarus is limited to fixed assets, approaches World Bank assessing by countries world considered. amount structure wealth assessment based on data 2018 ...

The theory of neoclassical welfare economics largely shaped international and national agricultural policies during the Cold War period. It treated technology as an exogenous factor that could boost agricultural productivity but not necessarily sustainable agriculture. New growth theory, the economic theory of the new knowledge economy, treats technological change as endogenous and argues that ...

864 www.thelancet.com Vol 380 September 8, 2012 The recent Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place 20 years after the fi rst global conference on the environment and development and 10 years after the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Although much of the discussion focused on the environment, poverty reduction, and sustaining ec...