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) “Public Debt around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt”, IDB Research Department Working Paper Nr. 561.
Database description:
Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. This paper presents a new dataset that includes complete series of central government debt for 89 countries over the 1991-2005 period and for seven other countries for the 1993-2005 period.
Years covered: 1993-2005.