This paper uses the detailed information in the 1995 Census of Industrial Production as a benchmark for analysing the coverage, concepts and consistency of published statistical series. On the basis of the analysis, the paper proposes a series of adjustments which result in more consistent...

This paper examines the emergence of manufacturing in developing countries in the period 1950-2005. It presents new data on structural change in a sample of 63 developing countries and 16 advanced economies. Industrialisation is seen as a single global process of structural change, in which...

This paper provides an interpretation of the global pattern of economic growth in the period following 1950. It uses a model in which growth in an individual country depends on a number of different so-called common trends that are representative of the global economy. Although such trends are...