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**Argentina** Unemployment rate is drawn from CIA Factbook 1995 and refers to 1994. Paid employment is non agricultural activities is taken from Anuario Estadistico de la Republica Argentina, 1995 and relates to 1995. Javier Burgueno of Consultorio Burgueflo Pepe & Asociados was also a source of information relating to Argentina. Central Government Employment data are drawn from Public Sector Reform (Loan 3394-AR) Completion Report of June 29, 1995 and refer to 1993. They include decentralized agencies of the Central Government (76,000 in 1994). Primary, secondary and technical education are handled at the local level. Public Universities are at the central government level. University Teachers number 100,000 and include both full-time and part-time. In June, universities were given autonomous status within the public sector, and accordingly they became responsible for salaries of professors. It is not clear whether the number of teachers can include them or not. Local Government employment is taken from IMF Report No. SM/95/248 of September 20, 1995 and relates to 1994. It includes employees of the Provinces and the City of Buenos Aires (1,013), and employees of the Municipalities (348). Health sector employees are taken from WHO, 1993. State-owned enterprise employment is also taken from IMF Report SM/95/248 (see above) and relates to Central Government enterprise employees for 1994. Military employment data include conscripts (18500), but do not include personnel in paramilitary units, e.g., the Gendarmerie (18,000) under the authority of the Ministry of Defense and la Prefectura Naval (13,240). Data on GDP at market price is a 1993 estimate and is taken from World Tables 1995. Data on wages and salaries of Central Govemment as percent of GDP is taken from IMF Report SM/94/177 of July 8, 1994 and relates to 1993. GDP per capita, average Government wages, and wages and salaries as multiple of per capita GDP is based upon calculations emanating from this data. Data on wages in manufacturing are from the International Labor Office's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1993.

|**Bahamas**|Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995<br>and are for 1994. Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1994<br>and source l:_Labor force sample_surveys and_General household sample_surveys.<br>Central Government, Non Central Government, Education and Health employment are taken from IMF Report No.<br>96/244 and relates to 1995. Police Force is estimated at 1200.<br>GDP at market prices and wages bill estimates are taken fro m IMF Report No. SM/96/244 of September 27, 1996<br>and relates to 1994. GDP per capita, Government average wages and wages and salaries as multiple of per capita<br>GDP are based on calculations emanating from this data.|
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|**Barbados**|Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995<br>and are for 1994. Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to<br>1994 and source l:_Labor force sample_surveys and_General household sample surveys._<br>Data on Central Govemment Employment, Education and Health employment are taken from Republic of Barbados<br>Ministry of Finance and Public Service Commission data and relate to 1995. Local Government in Barbados is non-<br>existent.<br>Employment in State-owned enterprises is taken from WB Report No. 15185 CRG Public Sector<br>Modernization in the Caribbean.<br>GDP per capita, Government average wages and wages and salaries as multiple of per capita GDP are based on<br>calculations emanating from this data.|
|**Belize**|Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995<br>and are for 1994. Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to<br>1994 and source I:_Labor_force_sample_surveys and_General household sample_surveys.<br>General Government employment is taken from information provided by Public Sector Modernization in the<br>Caribbean.|
|**Bermuda**|Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995<br>and are for 1994. Unemployment data are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995, refer to 1991<br>and source l1l, Code 1:_Employment_office_statistics_and do not include persons who are already in employment.|
|Bolivia|Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995<br>and are for 1994.<br>Data relating to Central Government employment are drawn from AR on Civil Service Reform project and relate to<br>1993. Central Government employment figure is broken down into 117,596 permanent employees, 16,642<br>temporaries and 1,180 consultants (line positions financed under International Cooperation projects). Central<br>Government entails Central Ministerial departments and local administration extensions. Central Government<br>employment does not include teachers (numbering about 80,000) but includes health workers and decentralized<br>institutions which fall under the jurisdiction of sectoral ministries. We have not been able to estimate the number of<br>these employees. Health employment is taken from Luis Pisani, Head of the Social sector unit in the WB's La Paz<br>Resident mission and relates to 1994/95. The data includes medical employees in both the Secreteria Nacional de<br>Salud and the Caja nacional de salud (which is the social security scheme which covers public sector employees).|