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implication, developmental différences 50 . Other justifications stem from the fact that<br />

in 1960 the Micro Economies were, like Cyprus, ail very small, open, service<br />

oriented island économies, with similar levels of human capital development.<br />

Table 6.4 Subséquent convergence or divergence within the groups (excluding<br />

Cyprus)? Coefficients of variation for selected indicators 1964-80.<br />

Micro<br />

Economies<br />

More<br />

Developed<br />

Mediterranean<br />

Regional<br />

Sub-Group<br />

1/. GDP per capita in 1980 0.584 0.308 0.124<br />

2/. Agriculture as a % of GDP in 1980 0.796 0.645 0.502<br />

3/. Industry as a % of GDP in 1980 0.559 0.227 0.176<br />

4/. Services as a % of GDP in 1980 0.230 0.144 0.116<br />

5/. % growth in per capita GDP 1964-80 0.572 0.328 0.226<br />

6/. Average investment as a % of GDP 1964-80 0.411 0.136 0.131<br />

7/. Total gross primary & secondary enrolment ratio in 1980. 0.103 0.131 0.072<br />

8/. Openness; X & M as a % of GDP 64-80 0.254 0.770 0.761<br />

9/. Govt share of GDP (%) in 1980 0.296 0.496 0.190<br />

Micro Economies: Barbados, Fiji, Malta, Mauritius, Trinidad & Tobago.<br />

More Developed Mediterranean: Greece, Israel, Malta, Portugal, Turkey, Yugoslavia.<br />

Regional Sub-Group: Greece, Malta, Portugal, Yugoslavia.<br />

Sources:<br />

Variables 1,5,6,8 & 9, Summers & Heston, "Penn World Tables (PWT) version 5.6"; Variables 2-4, UN, 1992 Yearbook of National<br />

Income Accounts, NY ; Variable 7, UNESCO, World Education Report. 1991, 1993, 1995. Paris.<br />

The logical counterpoint to the relative dissimilarity of the economic structures of<br />

the Micro Economies is that, by this measure, the regional économies were<br />

remarkably similar in structure in ail but the contribution of agriculture, or at least<br />

50 In 1960 only 10% of Trinidad and Tobago's GDP derived from agriculture, whilst 40% derived<br />

from the primary sector. Depending on whether income generated from the extractive industry is<br />

allocated to industry of the primary sector, industry represents 50% of GDP in 1960 or 20%<br />

respectively. Unfortunately there are problems with grouping the extractive industry along with<br />

hunting, forestry and fishing in a "Primary Sector", problems wliich gather pace the further back a<br />

historical enquiry goes. This is why the World Bank has opted for the sectorial divisions:<br />

Agriculture, Industry and Services (Agriculture includes the UN catégories: agriculture, hunting,<br />

forestry and fishing; Industry includes: mining, quarrying, manufacturing, electricity, gas, water and<br />

construction; Services include: whole and retail trade, restaurants and hôtels, transport and<br />

communications, finance, insurance, real estate and business services, community, social and<br />

Personal services, producers of government services and other - including statistical discrepancies).<br />

The World Bank, in its "World Development Reports", has attempted to avoid problems of<br />

interprétation by disaggregating manufacturing from industry, "because manufacturing is generally<br />

the most dynamic part of the industrial sector, its share of GDP is shown separately" IBRD. 1991.<br />

World Development Report 1991. p.209. Here, problems with data from Israël (manufacturing<br />

included mining and quarrying), Portugal (manufacturing included mining and quarrying) and Malta<br />

(mining and quarrying included in construction), mean that the same structural classifications have<br />

had to be used, though it is worth considering that estimâtes for coefficient of variation for the<br />

structure of production in the Micro Economies could be far closer if the extractive industry was<br />

included in a primary sector rather than being dumped in a more général "industry" category. When<br />

considering the primary sector in 1960 the Micro Economies look like they would be the closest<br />

correlating group if this strategy could be followed, and for the industrial sector they would be very<br />

close to the regionally related économies. Having said that, other than Trinidad and Tobago, and to a<br />

much lesser extent Malta, the above structural classifications do give a meaningful reflection of the<br />

structure and stage of development of most of the individual économies chosen here.<br />

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