We use international comparison data of Summers and Heston to trace the development of three regions in Western Europe: the countries currently outside the European Union (EEC), the EEC Center, and the EEC Periphery (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain). For each year during the period...

Using international comparison data for 1950-1990, we describe the GDPs of seven major regions of the non-Communist world: the North, the South ("down under"), Tropical Africa, Tropical America, and South-West, South Central and South-East Asia. The inequality among these regions accounts for...