Maddison Project
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The Maddison Project, also known as the Maddison Historical Statistics Project, is a project to collate historical economic statistics, such as GDP, GDP per capita, and labor productivity.{{cite web|url = http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm|title = Maddison Project| date=27 July 2016 |accessdate = October 3, 2017}}{{cite web|url = http://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/|title = The Database|publisher = Groningen Growth and Development Centre|accessdate = October 3, 2017}}{{cite web|url = http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/end-long-era|title = The end of a long era|last = Milanović|first = Branko|authorlink = Branko Milanović|date = July 19, 2013|accessdate = October 3, 2017|publisher = World Bank}}
It was launched in March 2010 to continue the work of the late economic historian Angus Maddison. The project is under the Groningen Growth and Development Centre at the University of Groningen, which also hosts the Penn World Table, another economic statistics project.{{cite web|url = http://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/|title = The Database. Penn World Table version 9.0|accessdate = October 3, 2017|publisher = Groningen Growth and Development Centre}}
Reception
Development economist Branko Milanović (writing for the World Bank), development economist Morten Jerven,{{cite web|url = http://www.ras.org.in/print/discrepancies_why_do_GDP_growth_rates_differ|title = Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ?|last = Jerven|first = Morten|accessdate = October 3, 2017}}{{cite web|url = https://www.cgdev.org/doc/17-NOV-CGD-Poor%20Numbers-Jerven.pdf|title = Poor Numbers! What Do We Know About Income and Growthin in Sub-Saharan Africa?|last = Jerven|first = Morten|accessdate = October 3, 2017}} and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/may/08/measuring-growth-gdp-africa|title = Bill Gates: how GDP understates economic growth. GDP may be an inaccurate indicator in sub-Saharan Africa, which is a concern for those who want to use statistics to help the world's poorest people|last = Gates|first = Bill|authorlink = Bill Gates|newspaper = The Guardian|date = May 8, 2013|accessdate = October 3, 2017}} have identified the Maddison Project, the Penn World Tables, and World Bank/IMF data (the World Development Indicators), as the three main sources of worldwide economic statistics such as GDP data, with the focus of the Maddison Project being on historical data. Economist Paul Krugman has suggested the Maddison Project as a data source for historical debt, growth, and labor output and productivity data.{{cite news|url = https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/debt-and-growth-data/|title = Debt and Growth Data|last = Krugman|first = Paul|authorlink = Paul Krugman|date = April 26, 2013|accessdate = October 3, 2017|newspaper = New York Times}}
Our World In Data, a website with data-driven discussion of a number of topics related to long-run economic and human development, uses the Maddison Project as one of its data sources.{{cite journal |url=https://ourworldindata.org/economic-growth#data-sources |journal=Our World in Data |title=Economic Growth § Data Sources |year=2017 |accessdate=October 21, 2017|last1=Roser |first1=Max }}
See also
- Penn World Table
- United Nations World Development Indicators
- The World Economy: Historical Statistics, a 2004 book by Angus Maddison that is an early precursor of the work done by the Maddison Project
- Angus Maddison statistics of the ten largest economies by GDP (PPP)
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm}}