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U208 Third World Development Open University 1999

Additional resources for this tutorial:

Recommended additional reading:

R.Rojas: Development Studies: Researching for the big bosses?
R.Rojas: Notes on development and dependency 
R.Rojas: Making sense of development studies (notes)

General Information:
1997 GDP US$ million % Labour Force million % Value Added per Worker US$ Population million %
Low Income 717,238 3 1,171 32 613 2,048 35
Lower Middle Income 2,658,209 9 1,491 41 1,783 2,285 39
Upper Middle Income 2,503,695 9 361 10 6,935 571 10
High Income 22,321,937 79 621 17 35,945 926 16
World 28,157,012 100 3,644 100 7,727 5,829 100
Source: World Development Indicators 1998 (World Bank)

See also:
World Bank:
 Clasification of economies by income, 1997-1998 Africa
 Clasification of economies by income,1997-1998-World Bank, Asia
 Clasification of economies by income, 1997-1998, Americas
 Clasification of economies by income, 1997-1998, Europe/Central Asia
 Topics in Development
 Publications
 Africa
 East Asia and the Pacific
 Europe and Central Asia
 Latin America and the Caribbean
 Middle East and North Africa
 South Asia
 OED Precis (Operation Evaluation Department)
	    
International Monetary Fund:
 Publications
 Joint World Bank/IMF Library
 News
 The IMF Institute
 Finance and Development

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
 Research and studies
 Basic texts

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Economic Commission for Africa(ECA)


International statistical resources:
Economic Growth
Resources.....................University of Oxford
Penn World Data Tables......................................Biz/ed
CIA World Factbook.................................U.S. Government
The Centre for Cooperation with the Economies in Transition...OECD
Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade.... ..U.S. Government
Statistics
and Quantitative Analysis Unit.....................IADB
Research and Statistics.......................................IADB
Development Indicators............Development Assistance Committee
Statistical Reporting System......Development Assistance Committee
Central Banks on the WWW.......................................BIS
Statistical Resources.......................University of Michigan

OneWorld News Service:
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Europe
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Central America 
North America
Middle East

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