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May 28, 2024
Moatsos, Michail, 2024, "Global Hunger", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/4DUCFB, IISH Data Collection, V1
The hunger rate represents the share of the people in a country below a fraction of a cost of basic needs poverty line. The fraction used by FAO is 52%, and I use that value for 2018. For years before and up to 1820 I linearly interpolate using a 80% value for 1820. The dynamic c... |
Sep 6, 2022
Klein Goldewijk, Kees; Fink-Jensen, Jonathan, 2015, "Copper Production", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/GI7D06, IISH Data Collection, V2, UNF:6:IAgwirjQF1qJy58a0lGwzA== [fileUNF]
Copper is usually found in nature in association with sulfur. Pure copper metal is generally produced from a multistage process, beginning with the mining and concentrating of low-grade ores containing copper sulfide minerals, and followed by smelting and electrolytic refining to... |
Oct 21, 2021
Bolt, Jutta; van Zanden, Jan Luiten, 2015, "The long view on economic growth: New estimates of GDP", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/8FCYOX, IISH Data Collection, V2, UNF:6:LkOdJSJcusmuFZ5isvk+lw== [fileUNF]
The Maddison Project, initiated in March 2010 by a group of close colleagues of Angus Maddison, aims to develop an effective way of cooperation between scholars to continue Maddison’s work on measuring economic performance in the world economy. This paper is a first product of th... |
Oct 21, 2021
Gilmore, Oisín, 2021, "The working week in manufacturing since 1820", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SZ4A1H, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:Zqh4+uGx03IvDmjICOPxFA== [fileUNF]
The dataset contains some 4 300 observations and covers 120 countries or political units. It shows that workers in manufacturing worked 60 to 90 hours per week in the 19th century, compared to around 40 hours today. This is a reduction of 20-50 hours, that is, 50-125% of today’s... |
Oct 20, 2021
Peter Lindert, 2021, "Social Spending", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/CP5NDW, IISH Data Collection, V1
As a share of GDP, government social spending has a hockey stick shape, remaining flat and near zero until the 20th century, when it rose sharply. Northwest Europe has always led the way. Over time, support has become more generous for the average elderly person relative to the y... |
Aug 18, 2021
Guido, Alfani; Schifano, Sonia, 2021, "Wealth Top10 percent share", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BI8EQU, IISH Data Collection, V1
The wealth Gini index value varies between 0 (perfect equality, i.e. all households or individuals have the same wealth) and 1 (perfect inequality, i.e. one household or individual owns all the wealth, the others have none). The wealth share of the top 10% is the share of wealth... |
Aug 18, 2021
Alfani, Guido; Schifano, Sonia, 2021, "Wealth Yearly Ginis", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/GQGKRH, IISH Data Collection, V1
The wealth Gini index value varies between 0 (perfect equality, i.e. all households or individuals have the same wealth) and 1 (perfect inequality, i.e. one household or individual owns all the wealth, the others have none). The wealth share of the top 10% is the share of wealth... |
Aug 18, 2021
Alfani, Guido; Schifano, Sonia, 2021, "Wealth Total", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/U8ZDOM, IISH Data Collection, V1
The wealth Gini index value varies between 0 (perfect equality, i.e. all households or individuals have the same wealth) and 1 (perfect inequality, i.e. one household or individual owns all the wealth, the others have none). The wealth share of the top 10% is the share of wealth... |
Aug 18, 2021
Guido Alfani; Sonia Schifano, 2021, "Wealth Decadal Ginis", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/1NO6GS, IISH Data Collection, V1
The wealth Gini index value varies between 0 (perfect equality, i.e. all households or individuals have the same wealth) and 1 (perfect inequality, i.e. one household or individual owns all the wealth, the others have none). The wealth share of the top 10% is the share of wealth... |
Jul 20, 2021
Moatsos, Michail, 2021, "Global Extreme Poverty Dollar a Day", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BFYMIJ, IISH Data Collection, V1
The extreme poverty rate represents the share of the people in a country below a poverty line. Here two such lines are used: a cost of basic needs approach following Allen (2017), and the short cut approach of the 1.9 dollar-a-day. The estimates cover the period 1820-2018 (yearly... |
