Summers and Heston international comparisons (UN ICP)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	Robert Summers and Alan Heston
Coverage	1950-1980
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	3

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Moll (1991b)	Summers and Heston, 'Improved international comparisons of real product and its composition: 1950-1980', Review of Income and Wealth (1984) – UN International Comparison Project data	1960 base year	Population and PPP-based real per capita GDP in 1960 used to select the 20 comparison middle-income developing countries.
Moll (1991c)	Summers and Heston, 'Improved international comparisons of real product and its composition: 1950-1980' (UN International Comparison Project data)	1960 base year (1950-1980 series)	Population and per capita real GDP in 1975 international prices select the 20 comparator middle-income countries.
Moll (1991d)	Summers and Heston, 'Improved international comparisons of real product and its composition: 1950-1980' (Review of Income and Wealth, 1984) – UN International Comparison Project data	1950-1980 (1960 base year)	Population and PPP-based per capita GDP in 1960 used to select the 20 comparable middle-income developing countries.