World Bank reports and databases (various)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	World Bank
Coverage	1960-2003
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Aron and Muellbauer (2006)	World Bank database on financial development and structure (Beck et al., 1999), 2003 data	2003	Table 1 compares South African financial development indicators with industrial and emerging economies.
Bond (2004)	Roome, J. (1995), World Bank presentation to the SA Water Conservation Conference; World Bank (1999) Country Assistance Strategy	1995, 1999	Shows World Bank lobbying against cross-subsidised lifeline tariffs and the Bank's claim that its advice was 'instrumental' in the restructuring of water pricing.
Hilsenrath and Pogue (2012)	World Bank (2006) Where is the Wealth of Nations? (resource rents, genuine savings)	1970-2000	Context on South Africa's resource rents share and poor reinvestment/genuine savings rate.
Sapire and Beall (1995)	World Bank, Zambia Urban Poverty Assessment, February 1994	1960-1991	Supplies the estimates of urban poverty rates (17-43 per cent; rise from 4 to 17 per cent 1975-1991) and the claim that a third of urban Zambians were squatters by 1960.
Sender (1994)	World Bank, Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead (1994)	1980s	Cited for the claimed empirical regularity that orthodox adjustment policies coincided with declining private and public investment rates.