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.
undata Back in February, the UN Statistics Division released their beta system for providing a single entry point for UN data. This new system replaces the UN Common Databse (UNCDB), with which many readers will be familiar. Undata allows you to search for data by keyword as well as browse by category. It is regularly…
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive Search and download policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S. from this archive at Princeton. CPANDA also includes a “searchable bibliographic database of selected monographs, serials, reports, papers, proceedings, articles and books (1965 to first quarter 2007) relevant to arts and…
CNS Data/Databases The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), is a nongovernmental organization devoted to research on issues of nonproliferation. Their web site provides access to several of their databases: WMD Country Profile Frequently updated profiles of countries covering their nuclear, biological, and chemical capabilities, facilities, and imports/export. NIS (Newly Independent States) Trafficking Database…
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,…
A new statistical report from the United Nations: High Commissioner for Refugees Report: “2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons,” (June 2007, .pdf format, 15p.). http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4676a71d4.pdf More statistics and data can be found from the UN Refugee Agency, on the UNHCR Statistics web site, including their annual statistical publication, the Statistical…
Global Development Finance is a two-volume annual report from the World Bank. The first volume, usually titled “Analysis and Statistical Appendix” is available online from the World Bank web site, free for anyone to read. The second volume, “Summary and Country Tables” contains country data in time series back to 1970. The Carleton library subscribes…
The IPUMS-International series now includes 17 new samples from Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Portugal, and Rwanda. Back in December, 16 new samples were added for Belarus, Cambodia, Greece, the Philippines, Romania, Spain and Uganda. For more information about using these data from the University of Minnesota Population Center, see the data releases web…