Index
absolute poverty, 1 48; information and
adverse external shock, 100, 101 communication services as percent
Africa, 27, 28, 34, 38, 39, 59. See also of total service exports, 67, 68; labor
Middle East and Northern Africa; productivity growth and energy/
Other Africa; Representative labor ratio, 51, 52; net borrowing
Africa; sub-Saharan Africa fl 79, 79–80; productivity ows,
African Growth and Opportunity Act, growth (1990–2003/4), 42,
of 2000 (AGOA), 34 42–43; sectoral contribution to
aggregate non-oil commodity prices, productivity growth through
ratio to manufacturing prices, 69 reallocation gains, 43, 43; services
agriculture, 40; growth dynamics, sector as share of total exports
136–138; productivity growth (1980–2005), 65, 65; shift s in
(1990–2003/4), 42, 42–43 employment/population ratios
Amsden, Alice, 134, 156 (1991–2003/4), 46, 46–47
Andean countries: agriculture and animal spirits, 8, 77
industrial output share and annual arbitrage, 76, 103
growth rate per capita, 40; capital Asia. See South Asia; Southeast Asia
and labor productivity growth
rates and TPFG (1991–2004/2), balance sheets, illustrative (T-accounts),
48–49, 50; commodity shares and 84–85, 85, 88, 91, 95, 111
total exports, 60–61; countries in, Bangladesh, 62, 137
53; economic growth and banking development, 12, 65, 89, 132,
educational improvements 149, 150, 153
(1970–2000), 45, 45; exports Banque Général, Paris, 87
breakdown of regions, by percent, Basel Committee on Banking
66; GDP and annual growth rate Regulation, 89, 93–94, 110
per capita, 38, 39; in global trading Basel I, 89, 93
system, 63; growth rates of output Basel II, 89, 93–94
and capital stock (1990–2004), 48, bond markets, 12, 16, 88–92, 149–150