The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective …, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks …, a service providing access to the underlying data in Excel® format. These two volumes bring together estimates of world …

African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones. As world prices for commodities rise, producer countries … in Africa and throughout the world will gain, but there is more to the story than that. Some African countries are …