Guides: ECO 4334/INB 4334: Economic Development: Library Resources for Data

Sources for data

These resources are available through the library's electronic resources. They provide data which has been collect by organizations such as the United Nations or the World Bank.

Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications, state and private sources, and international organizations.
FAOSTAT This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture as well as the FAO Statistical Yearbook and the UN Working Papers.

Gapminder
Gapminder is a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries in the form of enjoyable and interactive graphs.

GATT digital library : 1947-1994 This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the public documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
UNdata : a world of information This link opens in a new window
Provides a single entry point to locate data from United Nations databases giving users the ability to search over 30 UN databases containing over 60 million data points covering areas such as agriculture, education, employment, environment, health, and the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
An easy to use data access system was developed that meets UNSD’s vision of providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community.
United Nations Development Programme : UNDP This link opens in a new window
Provides information on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and offers access to news items, UNDP publication information, and statistics.

World Bank Data Catalog
World Bank Data Catalog provides a direct link into the World Bank's microdata, finances and energy data platforms as well as data sets in the open catalog.

World Bank e-Library This link opens in a new window
Searches the World Bank's full-text collection of books, reports/working papers, journals, and other documents.

World databank
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

ECO 4334/INB 4334: Economic Development

Sources for data

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