World Bank World Development Indicators

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	World Bank
Coverage	1950-2001
Works using it	8

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Sanctions & Macro.

Debates

Debate	Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	3
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Coulibaly (2005)	World Bank World Development Indicators 2005 (current account to GDP, real GDP per capita of world and middle-income countries)	1970-2001	Comparator for the global-factors check: South African current account and growth compared with middle-income countries.
Evenett (2002a)	World Bank World Development Indicators (volume and CD-ROM): income classification, national income, US price deflator	1978-1999	Used to classify countries as middle income, to select the exporter sample, to supply national income data for the gravity equation, and to deflate values to 1995 US dollars.
Evenett (2002b)	World Bank World Development Indicators (CD-ROM and country income classification)	1978-1999	Provides national income (GDP), the US price deflator, and income-group classifications used to select the comparison set of middle-income exporters and the gravity variables.
Fedderke and Mariotti (2002a)	World Bank Development Indicators (economically active population growth)	1970-97	Gives 2.56% annual growth of the economically active population, strengthening the claim that employment creation lagged labour supply.
Fedderke and Mariotti (2002b)	World Bank Development Indicators (economically active population growth)	1970-1997	Corroborates that employment growth lagged labour force growth (2.56 per cent p.a.).
Malherbe and Segal (2001a)	World Bank World Development Indicators 2000 and World Bank/SARB data on institutional assets (Figure 6)	1990s (Figure 6 dated mid-1990s)	Benchmarks South Africa's savings rate and institutional-investor asset size against other countries.
Mohamed and Finnoff (2004)	World Development Indicators (WDI) CD-ROM 2003 – current account and change in reserves	1980-2000	Supplies the current account balance and change in foreign reserves used in the residual calculation.
Schneider (2000)	World Bank, World Development Indicators 1998 CD-ROM and World Tables 3rd Edition Vol. 1; Reserve Bank of South Africa (Table 3)	1950-1996	Compares South African GDP growth with world and regional groups to show the post-1970s relative decline.