Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) A database of over 100 political, economic, social, and cultural indicators for 196 countries drawn from open sources. “The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic…
Global Development Finance A World Bank publication from that contains analysis and comparative statistics for nations and regions. The text is downloadable as PDFs, but use the links on the left for “regional outlooks” to more reports, the tables and charts of which can be downloaded in Excel format.
Major official sources for Foreign Direct Investment: See the IMF and OECD’s document on How Countries Measure FDI. UNCTAD: Foreign Direct Investment Database FDI On-line (also called World Investment Directory Online) “Detailed statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) and operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) in selected countries” FDI Statistics (from the Division on Investment, Technology…
Pippa Norris (Harvard) Exceptionally valuable global indicators datasets and their documentation being shared by this scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Global Indicators Shared Dataset Variables: Over 700. Use the codebook. Geographic Coverage: 191 nations
Penn World Tables Annual data for more than 160 countries on 25 macro and related aggregates. Also known as the Summers-Heston data. Good for: Meaningful international comparisons are possible between countries. Data not available for every country for every year. Time period: 1950-2000 Citation: Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version…
International Financial Statistics (IFS) (Link works on the Carleton campus only) The principle data set of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Carleton now subscribes to the electronic version, but it is best used in concert with the print version, which is available in the library (in the monthly and yearbook issues). Good for: Macroeconomic, international…
Public Debt Around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt. Released March 2006 by the Inter-American Development Bank. The web site provides a downloadable zip file that contains The working paper (see below) the data (both in STATA and EXCEL format) for public debt described therein Citation: Dany Jaimovich and Ugo Panizza (2006)…
World Development Indicators The World Bank’s statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2006 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. The link above is to the library’s subscription version of the database. Much of it is also available…
NeighborhoodInfo DC contains statistical profiles and other publications on neighborhoods in Washington DC. Aimed at supporting policy decision-makers, the site is a collaborative effort of the Urban Institute and Washington DC Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). On this web site, you’ll find data on D.C. neighborhoods — population, race and ethnicity, income, poverty, employment, education,…
Maplecroft’s Global Maps series announced two new maps today. Maplecroft’s Global map of aid explores the contributions made by developed country governments and their role in development, specifically the Millennium Development Goals. It is intimately linked with the map of debt through the issue of debt relief, the advantages and disadvantages of which are discussed…