Penn World Table

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
Coverage	1950-2008
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bowman (n.d.)	Penn World Table 6.2 (real GDP and GDP per capita, South Africa, US, Ireland)	c. 1950s-1990s (thirty years before 1985 to ten years after)	Author computes GDP and GDP-per-capita comparisons (Figures 1 and 2) to argue South Africa diverged from the US and Irish trends after 1985.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008)	Penn World Tables 6.1 (GRGDPCH, OPENK, KI)	1950-2000	Annual real GDP per capita growth, openness and investment series for the Table 5 regressions estimating the growth effects of sanctions, COSATU and democracy.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2013)	Penn World Tables 7.0 (GRGDPCH, South Africa 1950-2008)	1950-2008	Dependent variable (annual real per capita GDP growth) in regressions estimating growth under apartheid and democracy, used to project incomes.