World Bank data, reports and macroeconomic model

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	national accounts macro
Producer	World Bank
Coverage	1960-2007
Works using it	4

Project holdings

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

Debates

Debate	Works
Living standards, health and social policy	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Devereux (2007)	World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001	1999	Provides 1999 GNP per capita figures to argue that wealthier countries sustain social pensions.
Kirsten et al. (2007)	World Bank (2007) World Development Indicators and Quantech (2005) South African Standardised Industry Database	1965-2004	Basic economic indicators (GDP shares, employment, trade) in Appendix Table 1.
McIntyre et al. (1995)	Department of Finance (1994) Budget Review, 22 March 1994; Fallon and da Silva (1994) World Bank economic data	1978-1994	Government revenue, expenditure, deficit and GDP growth establishing fiscal constraints.
World Bank (1994)	World Bank macroeconomic model of the South African economy (~300 identities/equations, 45 econometric equations on 1960-1992 time-series data)	1960-1992	Estimates the main quantitative relationships of the economy and is used to simulate public investment, wage and fiscal scenarios.