Data by Institution |
| Name of Institution |
Description |
| Asian Development Bank |
Publications ( includes Key Indicator series, Asian Development Outlook, country reports, staff papers, and fact sheets among much more)
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| Bank for International Settlements (BIS) |
International Financial Statistics |
| CIA |
WORLD FACTBOOK: Statistical Report by Country |
| Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) |
links to International Macro, Trade and Labor data used in CEPR working papers |
| Center for Global Development (CGDEV) |
research data: links to data used in CGDEV working papers |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis |
Economic data: FREDII (US data on CPI, PPI, Employment, Financial Data, Population and more) |
| The Groningen Growth and Development Centre |
The Total Economy and the 60 Industry Database |
IMF: The World Economic Outlook DATABASE
IMF:International Financial Statistics (IFS) online |
IMF Databases, subscription only for IFS |
| Inter-American Development Bank |
Poverty and Inequality data from the Sustainable Development Department |
| NBER |
Datasets from NBER working papers |
| OECD |
Statistics Portal: Data by Topic |
| Population Reference Bureau |
Country Statistics & Reports ( information on population, health, and the environment for over 200 countries) |
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United Nations |
| Children's Fund (UNICEF) |
Economic and social statistics on the countries and territories of the world, with particular reference to children’s well-being |
| UNICEF |
Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women: Statistics on Health, Nutrition, Education, Water and Sanitation |
| Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) |
UNCTAD Databases online |
| Development Programm (UNDP) |
Human Development Report Data |
| Environment Program (UNEP) |
GEO Data Portal : datasets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report |
| FAOSTAT |
Data on Food Production and Nutrition |
| Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) |
Data provided by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) |
| The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO) |
FAOSTAT Data on Nutrition and Food Production |
| International Labor Organization (ILO) |
Statistics division |
| STATISTICS DIVISION |
Statistical databases ( "Millenium Indicators", national accounts, population data, social indicators etc) |
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World Bank |
Doing Business Database |
Topics covered by Doing Business are; Entry Regulation, Contract Enforcement, Bankruptcy, Credit Markets, Labor Markets. |
| EDSTATS |
The World Bank's Database on education statistics |
| Educational attainment and enrollemnt around the world |
access to graphs and data collected from the "Demographic and Health Surveys" (DHS) |
Financial Structure and Economic Development database |
indicators of financial development and structure across countries and over time through 2001 |
| GDF Online |
Government Development Finance Database -subscription only access |
| GENDERSTATS |
database of gender related statistics |
| Global Poverty Monitoring |
tables from this project include % and number of people living under $1 ($2) a day |
| HNP Stats |
the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population data platform |
| The Investment Climate Unit |
Firma level Surveys |
| Macroeconomic and Growth Datasets |
datasets compiled from World Bank research in this area |
Legal and Justice Sector Database |
Worldwide legal and judicial indicators |
| Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) |
LSMS survey datasets |
| PovertyNet |
Data and Tools, provides information and links on (survey) datasets and poverty indicators |
| WDI Online |
World Development Indicators -- subscription only access |
World Bank Research Datasets
|
datasets compiled from World Bank research |
| Business environment |
|
| Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) |
World Bank Research |
| Doing Business Database |
Topics covered by Doing Business are; Entry Regulation, Contract Enforcement, Bankruptcy, Credit Markets, Labor Markets |
| Unofficial Economy Dataset |
World Bank Research |
| World Business Environment Survey(WBES) |
World Bank Research |
Education |
|
| Barro-Lee Dataset 2000 |
Barro, Robert J. and Jong-Wha Lee, International Data on Educational Attainment: Updates and Implications (CID Working Paper no. 42)
|
| EDSTATS |
The World Bank's Database on education statistics |
| Educational attainment and enrollemnt around the world |
World Bank porject that gives access to graphs and data collected from the "Demographic and Health Surveys" (DHS) |
| Education and Training Databases |
OECD |
| Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) |
Data provided by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) |
|
|
Ethnic Division |
|
| Fractionalization Excel File |
Dataset used in "Fractionalization" by Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly
Sergio Kurlat and Wacziarg, April 2003 Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Growth. |
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Food and Nutrition |
|
| Agriculture and Fisheries |
OECD |
| Child Nutrition Databases |
UNICEF |
| FAOSTAT |
Data on Food Production and Nutrition |
Finance and Financial Markets |
|
| Bank Regulation and Supervision |
World Bank Research
|
Beck-Levine: A New Database on Financial Development and Structure |
This dataset of financial development and structure across countries and over time unites a range of indicators that measure the size, activity, and efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets. |
Financial Structure and Economic Development |
World Bank Research: Indicators of financial development and structure across countries and over time through 2001
|
| Finance Database |
OECD |
| Financial Data by Country |
IMF |
| GeoInvestor.com |
Global Database of journalist Bill Kucewicz |
| International banking statistics |
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) |
| International Financial Statistics online |
IMF Database, subscription only |
Governance |
|
Corruption Surveys Indexes |
Transparancy International |
| Database in Political Institutions |
World Bank Research -New Tools and New Tests in Comparative Political Economy: The Database of Political Institutions. Published in World Bank Economic Review (2001) |
| Economic Freedom ot the World |
The Fraser Institute |
| Global Corruption Report |
Transparancy International |
| Good Practisess database |
UN Statistics Division |
| Governance Research Indicators |
World Bank Research |
| Index of Economic Freedom 2004 |
The Heritage Foundation |
| Regulatory Discretion |
World Bank Research - Regulatory Discretion and the Unofficial Economy. Published in American Economic Review |
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Growth & Development |
|
| Growth Datasets |
Economic Growth Resources,maintained by Jonathan Temple and hosted by the University of Bristol |
| Penn World Table |
Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 6.1, Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP), October 2002 |
| Sala-i-Martin's Data on Growth |
Prof. Sala-i-Martin's homepage |
Total Economy Database
|
The Groningen Growth and Development Centre at University of Groningen |
| WDI Online |
World Development Indicators -- subscription only access |
| The World Economic Outlook DATABASE |
IMF |
Health |
|
| Child Survival and Health |
Unicef |
| Maternal Health |
Unicef |
| Health Statistics |
OECD |
| HIV/AIDS Surveillance website |
Health Studies Branch, International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau |
Labor |
|
| Labor Database |
OECD |
| LABORSTA |
ILO |
| Occupational Wages around the World (OWW) Database |
from NBER Working Paper #8058, Wages around the World: Pay across Occupations and Countries. by Freeman and Oostendorp |
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Population |
|
| Population Refernece Bureau (PBR) Datafinder |
This database contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states. |
| Panel Study of Income Dynamics |
University of Michigan |
| Demography and Population Database |
OECD |
Poverty |
|
| Global Poverty Monitoring |
tables from this project include % and number of people living under $1 ($2) a day |
| PovertyNet |
Data and Tools, provides information and links on (survey) datasets and poverty indicators |
| WDI Online |
World Development Indicators -- subscription only access |
Political Economy |
|
| political economy data links |
provided by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Program (EOPP) at LSE |
| political data links |
provided by the Center for Political Science, Harvard |
Trade |
|
| bilateral trade observations |
Center for Economic Policy Research |
| Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) |
UNCTAD Databases online |
| International Trade Database |
OECD |
| Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb |
US International Trade Commission |
| U.S. Antidumping Database and Links |
NBER |
