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 …

Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich … countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa. The gap between the world leader, the US and the poorest region, Africa, is … reference and a sequel to the author's Monitoring the World Economy: 1820-1992, published in 1995 and his 1998 Chinese Economic …

impact of the reforms implemented to date on the economy’s longer-term growth outlook. The analysis is based on OECD …). It updates the OECD report Portugal: Reforming the State to Promote Growth, published in 2013. According to the OECD …’s Going for Growth exercise, Portugal is among the OECD countries with the best recent track record of responsiveness to …

China's remarkable growth in recent years has been often rather arbitrarily ascribed to a number of politico …-economic factors. In this volume, the specific effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows is measured quantitatively and … estimated on a regional basis. The authors find that there is a much more complex relationship between such flows and growth …