Abstract
A set of international comparisons is developed for 124 countries over the three post World War II decades, 1950‐80. A Data Table is presented which gives, for most countries and most years, real product estimates for three different national income concepts and for the major subaggregates consumption, investment, and government. Detailed comparative price level estimates are provided as well.
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EconomicsNational Income and Product AccountsProduct (mathematics)International comparisonsConsumption (sociology)Table (database)Investment (military)EconometricsNational accountsMacroeconomicsGovernment (linguistics)Gross fixed capital formationGross domestic productInternational economicsEconomic growthMathematicsComputer sciencePolitical science
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- 30
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- 2
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- 207-219
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Robert Summers,
Alan Heston
(1984).
IMPROVED INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND ITS COMPOSITION: 1950–1980.
Review of Income and Wealth
, 30
(2)
, 207-219.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1984.tb00486.x
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- 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1984.tb00486.x