League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents Northwestern University Library has digitized 260 League of Nations documents including the Statistical Yearbook of the League of Nations. The Carleton College library has the 1928 and 1942/44 editions in its print collection at the following call numbers: CC Books JX1975 .A25 1928 II CC Books JX1975 .A25…
Millennium Indicators The UN’s official web site of the MDG (Millennium Development Goals) Indicators has a searchable database from which data can be downloaded in various formats. Reports and other documents can also be found here.
Compare Minnesota is a new feature of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) web site. It provides comparable statistics for Minnesota and other states in the following subjects: Economic performance Business climate Labor force Quality of Education Innovation Presence of Fortune 500 companies and employment in hot industries Consumer prices Investment and…
EconStats is one of my favorite places to look for global monetary and financial statistics. Types of statistics you can find at this site: Foreign exchange rates by day, week, month, quarter or year Global interest rates Global stock markets Macro variables from GDP and unemployment to money and quasi money Spot prices and futures
Migrant-Remittances The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) web site is a good place to look for remittance data such as: Remittances to select Latin American countries (by destination country) for 2005 and also annually back to 2001 Remittances from the US to Latin America (by source US state) for 2006 and 2004 See also the Remittances…
A: One good place to look is the IMF annual report, World Economic Outlook. The 2006 report can be viewed online as a full PDF report, chapter by chapter, or search the World Economic Outlook database. Not all tables from the report are in the database, though, so if you can’t find what you need…
Economic Freedom of the World Data and reports from the Fraser Institute, measuring the extent to which 127 nations allow their citizens economic freedom. The report contains detailed country tables. Data from 1970 to 2004 are available for download. Also note that the library holds print versions of the 2005 and 2006 reports.
NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research NBER is a privite nonprofit research organization focusing on economic research. Their goal is to support and disseminate research to decision makers of all kinds, whether public, private or academic. The page linked above lists data sources associated with NBER research. These data come from individual researchers, government…
Asian Development Outlook (ADO) A key statistical publication of the Asian Development Bank, this annual publication features annual economic reports on the developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank. From the web site: an assessment of economic trends and prospects for the world and for the developing economies of Asia and the Pacific…
WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID2.0b) Cross-country and time-series observations (4665 Country/year observations) of the Gini coefficient as reported in surveys and as calculated by WIDER Good for: Showing changes in income inequality during the second half of the twentieth century. Time period: As early as 1867 but mainly from 1950’s to 2003. Documentation: User…