The Economist: Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse
| Date: | 14 June 2022 |
On June 9th, The Economist featured research by John Fernald of INSEAD Business School and GGDC director Robert Inklaar. In their article 'The UK Productivity “Puzzle” in an International Comparative Perspective', they argue that most of Britain’s slowdown...
The Economist: China is trying to protect its economy from Western pressure
| Date: | 30 May 2022 |
On May 26 The Economist featured an article on China's attempts to mitigate its exposure to Western influence, using data from the Penn World Table version 10.0.
Paper accepted in The World Bank Economic Review
| Date: | 18 February 2022 |
The paper "Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle-Income Countries", written by Stefan Pahl, Marcel Timmer, Reitze Gouma, and Pieter Woltjer, has been accepted for publication in the The World Bank...
Grant for investigating long-term disease patterns in Africa between 1850 and 1960
| Date: | 03 February 2022 |
Jutta Bolt has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant for five years to investigate historical disease patterns in Africa. The current pandemic is a forceful reminder of the global importance of good health for all. But at the same...
Long-run WIOD published
| Date: | 15 December 2021 |
As part of Marcel Timmer's VICI-project, a long-run time series of World Input-Output Tables for the period 1965-2000 has been constructed.
WIOD migration and DataverseNL
| Date: | 14 December 2021 |
The original website of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), previously hosted at www.wiod.org, has been migrated to the GGDC website. An archived version of the original website is still available, but will no longer be updated. All information and...
European Historical Economics Society Conference, Groningen 17th and 18th June, 2022
| Date: | 14 December 2021 |
The fourteenth conference of the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) will be held at the University of Groningen, Friday - Saturday, 17-18 June 2022.
Request for Research Proposals ETD
| Date: | 30 November 2021 |
Deadline for proposal submissions is 31 January 2022. United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is requesting research proposals on the Economic Transformation Database (ETD) project. This project aims to...
Global Value Chain report published
| Date: | 16 November 2021 |
The Asian Development bank (ADB), Research institute for Global Value Chains at the university of international business and economics (RI GVC), the World trade organization (WTO), the institute of Developing economies – Japan external trade organization...
Maddison project, re: "Don't believe the Haiti/DR graph"
| Date: | 24 September 2021 |