The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001, and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains STATlinks, a service providing access to the underlying data online in Excel format. This monumental reference work offers a comprehensive view of the long term changes in world income and population, with estimates of world GDP for the past 2000 years.
The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001, and ...
Latin America is looking toward China and Asia --and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s, the United States was the region's major trade partner. In the 1990s, a second growth engine emerged with the European investment boom in Latin America. Now the increasing global economic importance of Asia, and in particular China, potentially provides a third engine of growth. This book describes the opportunities and challenges that Latin...
Latin America is looking toward China and Asia --and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its histor...
Following up on his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective (OECD, 2001) Angus Maddison offers a rare insight into the history and political influence of national accounts and national accounting. He demonstrates that such statistical data can enlighten the analysis of economic phenomena such as growth, market formation, and income distribution. This approach is particularly interesting for developing countries that often lack the expertise or data to produce good national accounts and are thus deprived of a vital policymaking tool. For OECD countries, it is a reminder that policies...
Following up on his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective (OECD, 2001) Angus Maddison offers a rare insight into the history and political in...
This book challenges the assumption that the major benefits of investment in rural education accrue to traditional agricultural activities, such as staples production. Indeed, rural economies are much more complex than such an assumption would allow an
This book challenges the assumption that the major benefits of investment in rural education accrue to traditional agricultural activities, such as st...
How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development." OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Con
How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "susta...
Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000. In this period, world population rose 22-fold, while per capita gross domestic product increased 13-fold and world GDP nearly 300-fold. The biggest gains occurred in the wealthy regions of today (Western Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan). The gap between the world leader, the United States and the poorest region, Africa, is now 20 to 1. In the year 1000, today's wealthiest countries were poorer than Asia and Africa. The book has several objectives. The first is a...
Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000. In this period, world population ros...
This book examines recent progress made in the region's privatisation effort in Sub-Saharan Africa. With cumulative proceeds of privatisation accounting for just $8 billion compared to $46 billion in transition economies over the same period, it is clearly still in its infancy. The report charts progress, outlines methods used, and questions whether the objectives have been achieved. It also examines the impact privatisation has had on alleviating poverty. It is for policy makers, advisers and donors and research institutes involved in the privatisation process.
This book examines recent progress made in the region's privatisation effort in Sub-Saharan Africa. With cumulative proceeds of privatisation accounti...
This book is unique in its depth of perspective. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China's role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. It concludes that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world's largest economy by the year 2015, thus regaining the position it had held until the end of the nineteenth century. The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China's resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have...
This book is unique in its depth of perspective. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China's role in the world economy has changed so dra...