Results for tag: Press
GGDC and societal relevance
| Date: | 18 January 2016 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
We were very happy that a committee of esteemed colleagues recognized the usefulness of our research and database development efforts in the national Research Review of the faculty's research school, SOM. This helped contribute to the faculty's research...
World GDP should not be falling
| Date: | 15 December 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
A recent discussion on VoxEU about trends in world GDP illustrates how the wider use of Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) would lead to figures that are more readily plausible and easier to interpret.
Trade in value added research covered on RTL-Z
| Date: | 25 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gauging the strength of the Netherlands of a trading nation and analysing where it specialises should use data on trade in value added, rather than the traditional gross trade statistics. Well-known to experts, but Marcel Timmer's research in the...
Premature deindustrialization: GGDC data in the Wall Street Journal
| Date: | 25 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
While advanced economies grew rich from specialising in manufacturing and employing a large share of the labor force in this sector, the research of Dani Rodrik suggests that path is no longer available to lower-income economies today. How does he know...
El Pais on value chains
| Date: | 25 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
El Pais reports on the changing structure of world trade using data from the World Input-Output Database (in Spanish).