World Bank’s Open Data at data.worldbank.org. In April, the World Bank announced their open data initiative and made all of their data products freely available in a new interface, which includes API access for developers, dramatically increasing the availability and reach of this information. A quick how-to guide to the new site. Overview information of…
Net Aid Transfers Data Set (1960-2005) A new measure of foreign aid flow Primary Investigator: David Roodman Publishing Organization: Center for Global Development (CDG) Citation: David Roodman, “An Index of Donor Performance,” Working Paper 67, Center for Global Development, August 2005.
The CIAO database (Carleton only link), as of fall 2007, contains selected data and information from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a respected and highly cited source in political economy. EUI country information now in CIAO Detailed country maps Basic information and data for 201 countries Political and economic structures and backgrounds (coming in October)…
Foreign Policy has published its third annual Terrorism Index, a survey of over one hundred foreign policy experts from both major parties: “[The Index is] the only comprehensive, nonpartisan effort to mine the highest echelons of the nation’s foreign-policy establishment for its assessment of how the United States is fighting the war on terror. First…
For the third year in a row, Foreign Policy magazine (published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) has published its Failed States Index. An interactive interface to all three Failed State Indexes and details about the methodology of the survey can be found at the Fund for Peace web site. Read Foreign Policy magazine,…
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.
The dataset for the Fractionalization article cited below can be downloaded in Excel format from Romain Wacziarg’s web site (scroll down the page — it’s listed under the journal articles). Alesina, Alberto et. al. “Fractionalization.” Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2003, pp. 155-194. What: measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization…
WBI Governance & Anti-Corruption – Interactive Inventory of Datasets/Empirical Tools So far, this is the closest site I’ve found to a comprehensive listing of datasets on governance. This site is hosted and maintained by the World Bank. The invaluable tools here are: External Governance Datasets. An interactive, alphabetical list of datasets and brief descriptions Internal…
Democracy Promotion Project The final report and the dataset are available from the site linked above. “This study attempts to determine the impact of U.S. democracy assistance on democracy building world-wide. Unlike all prior published research, the data set is based upon an exhaustive survey of the entire democracy portfolio of the United States Agency…
Failed States Index “Now in its second year, the annual Failed States Index (FSI) was first introduced in the July/August 2005 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. The second FSI was published in the May/June issue. Click here to go to Foreign Policy’s website to view the articles. In 2005, we rated 75 countries, and in…