The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter 1. The Contours of World Development
I. The Nature and Welfare Implications of Population Change
II. GDP per Capita

Chapter 2. The Impact of Western Development on the Rest of the World, 1000-1950
I. Europes Decline from the First to Tenth Centuries
II. Western Europe Recovers and Forges Ahead, 1000-1500
III. The Venetian Republic
IV. Portugal
V. The Trading World of the Indian Ocean
VI. The Trading World of China, Japan and the Philippines
VII. The Portuguese in Brazil
VIII. The Netherlands
IX. Britain
X. The Impact of British Expansion in the Americas, Africa and Asia

Chapter 3. The World Economy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
I. Advanced Capitalist Countries
II. Resurgent Asia
III. Problem Economies of East Asia
IV. West Asia
V. Latin America
VI. The Transition Process in the Former USSR and Eastern Europe
VII. Africa

Appendix A World Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita, Benchmark Years, 1820–1998
Appendix B World Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita Before 1820
Appendix C Annual Estimates of Population, GDP and GDP Per Capita for 124 Countries, Seven Regions, and the World 1950-1998
Appendix D Measuring Growth and Levels of Performance in 27 Formerly Communist Countries, 1990-1998
Appendix E Employment, Working Hours, and Labour Productivity
Appendix F Volume and Value of Exports, 1820-1998

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