The Penn World Table displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential, both analytically and practically, of understanding research methods as bridging devices. Methods can bridge theory and empirics, but it is argued that they can perform several bridging functions: between theory and praxis,...

1. The Microeconomic Study of Development -- The Nature of the Studies -- The Microeconomic Study of Development and its Relation to Broader Economic Issues -- 2. Issues in the Choice of Development Policies -- A. What Is Development? -- B. The Structure of a Development: Uncertainty Reducing...