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World Bank World Development Report

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Kind international trade or finance data
Producer World Bank
Coverage 1965-1994
Works using it 10

Debates

Debate Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 5
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Living standards, health and social policy 2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bell (1995) World Bank, World Development Report 1989 (population and GNP per capita) 1980s Used to compute GNP in US dollars for the size axis of Figures 2a and 2b.
Crush and James (1995b) World Bank data on Lesotho growth and World Development Report 1992 1965-1991 Gives comparative GNP and GDP growth rates for the region.
Davies and Head (1995) World Bank, World Development Report 1992, Tables 2 and 26 1965-1990 Table 1 of GDP and population growth showing stagnation relative to population growth.
Di McIntyre et al. (1995) World Bank (1993, 1994) World Development Report and Better Health in Africa; Barnum and Kutzin (1993) 1990-1992 International comparators for health status, spending, beds and physicians.
Giliomee (1995) World Bank per capita GNP data (1988) and Huntington's per capita income comparisons 1988 Places South Africa in the income zone where democratic transitions are expected.
McCarthy (1988) World Bank, World Development Report 1987 (income classification, labour force growth, GDP and population Tables 3 and 27) 1980-1985 and projections to 2000 Used for South Africa's per capita GNP classification, labour force growth, and projections of per capita GDP under different growth scenarios.
McIntyre et al. (1995) World Bank (1993) World Development Report and World Bank (1994) Better Health in Africa 1990-1992 International benchmarks for health spending, beds, physicians, mortality and basic package costs.
Moll (1991b) World Bank, World Development Report 1980 (Washington, 1980), p. 111 1980 Justifies excluding Iran and Iraq from the comparison sample as capital-surplus oil exporters.
Moll (1991c) World Bank, World Development Report 1980 (Washington, 1980), p. 111 1980 Used to justify excluding Iran and Iraq as capital-surplus oil exporters from the comparator sample.
Moll (1991d) World Bank, World Development Report 1980 (Washington, 1980), p. 111 1980 Justifies excluding Iran and Iraq as capital-surplus oil exporters from the comparison sample.