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
Microfinance Gateway Anyone looking for data on microfinance should look to this metasite that brings together current news, research, discussion groups, organizations, and publications. MicroLinks Another research gateway. This one is from USAID. There is quite a bit of literature on this site if you dig through the navigation on the left. Keywords: microfinance, microcredit,…
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.
Statistical Abstract of Latin America. (SALA) CC Reference HA 935 .S79 (older editions back to 1962 in general stacks) Reliable statistical series on societies, economies, and politics in Latin America. “SALA compiles and presents data from some 250 national and international sources for twenty Latin American countries. To meet the needs of analysts interested in…
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…
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence Primary Investigators: Inglehart, Ronald & Christian Welzel, 2005 Sources: Most of the variables in the second half come from the World Values Survey. Other sources include the World Bank, UNDP, Encyclopedia Britannica, CIA World Factbook, Human Development Report, Polity IV, Freedom House, and the Global Civic…
Some of the best places to start when you don’t know where to start (e.g., you find yourself asking, who collects international education statistics?). Word of Caution: In general, I don’t recommend using these as a final source. Rather, use these as a way to identify the “standard” source of a particular measure, then go…
The following are five different ways to find statistics published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD Statistics Portal This portal provides free access to seven OECD databases and selections from all others to the public. Browse statistics by topic or by country. OECD Factbook 2006 This compendium of statistics collected by the…