African Successes

Macro Data

African Economic Outlook 2007: http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3343,en_2649_15162846_38561046_1_1_1_1,00.html#ESSENTIAL_MATERIAL

·         An African Development Bank, OECD Development Centre, and Economic Commission for Africa joint project

·         Good, current country reports

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data and Statistics: http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm

·         Global data (see especially World Economic Outlook Database, updated twice a year)

·         IMF financial data

·         Exchange rates data

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF): http://www.imf.org/external/np/prsp/prsp.asp

·         PRSPs describe the country's macroeconomic, structural, and social policies and programs over a three year or longer horizon to promote broad-based growth and reduce poverty, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing

·         Updated every three years with annual progress reports

World Bank datasets on macroeconomics and growth: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTMACROECO/0,,contentMDK:20392406~menuPK:836389~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477872,00.html

·         Economic growth datasets

·         Institutions and governance datasets

·         Macroeconomic policies datasets

·         Investment climate datasets

Industry Data

 

Finance and Private Sector Research

World Bank datasets on finance and private sector research: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTFINRES/0,,contentMDK:20367320~menuPK:713352~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:478060,00.html

·         Database on entrepreneurship

·         Public credit registries survey dataset

·         Reaching out: Access to and use of banking services across countries

·         Small and medium enterprises: Overcoming growth constraints

·         Deposit insurance around the world

·         New database on financial development and structure (updated 2007)

·         Bank regulation and supervision database

·         Episodes of systemic and borderline financial crises

·         Bank concentration and crisis

 

International Trade Data

World Bank trade research: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/TRADE/0,,contentMDK:20098489~menuPK:167374~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:239071,00.html?

·         World Trade Indicators (WTI)

·         Global monitoring report 2008 – trade restrictiveness indices

·         Trade policy data and import barriers

·         Trade, production, and protection database

·         Technical barriers to trade (TBT) database

·         Global antidumping database

·         WTO dispute settlement database

·         Innovation and development around the world dataset

 

Sustainable Rural and Urban Development

World Bank datasets on sustainable rural and urban development: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTIE/0,,contentMDK:20390030~menuPK:475530~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:475520,00.html

·         Air pollution in world cities

·         Cross-country database for sector investment and capital

·         Air pollution in major cities

·         Infrastructure economic performance

·         International Road Federation: World road statistics

·         IPPS pollution density and abatement costs datasets

·         Investing in infrastructure

·         ToxInt: the toxic intensities database

 

Conflict

World Bank datasets on the economics of civil war, crime, and violence: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTCONFLICT/0,,contentMDK:20336174~menuPK:637270~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477960,00.html

·         Partition as a solution to ethnic war

·         International peacebuilding: a theoretical and quantitative analysis

·         Armed conflict 1946-2001

 

Individual Data

Afrobarometer: http://www.afrobarometer.org/

·         Comparative series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, markets, and civil society in Africa

World Bank datasets on poverty: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTPOVRES/0,,contentMDK:20352430~menuPK:673691~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477894,00.html

·         ADePT: Stata Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis

·         Decomposing world income distribution database

·         Household surveys: Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

·         PovcalNet: interactive computational tool to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world

·         Poverty Mapping Program

 

Human Development and Public Services

Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI): http://www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de/11.0.html?&L=1

·         International ranking of 125 developing and transitional economy countries

·         Evaluates the political and economic status of each country as well as the political management performance by the relevant actors

·         Detailed country reports provide information on the underlying factors of assessment for each country examined

Global Integrity: http://www.globalintegrity.org/

·         Independent, nonprofit organization that tracks governance and corruption trends around the world

·         Works with local teams of researchers and journalists to monitor openness and accountability

Ibrahim Index of African Governance, 2007: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/17520/ibrahim_index_of_african_governance.html 

·         Developed under the direction of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government with the help of an advisory council of African academics

·         Based on five categories of essential political goods, each of Africa’s 48 countries is assessed against 58 individual measures

·         To be published annually; data missing from other datasets is currently being collected

International Budget Project’s Open Budget Index (OBI), 2006: http://www.openbudgetindex.org/ 

·         First ever budget transparency country rankings (59 countries): see downloadable database and reference material

·         Provides information needed to gauge a government’s commitment to transparency and accountability

·         Excellent link to “useful tools for research on budget transparency and accountability”

UNECA African Governance Report: http://www.uneca.org/agr2005/

·         Underlying datasets for each country may be available and country coverage is increasing

UNESCO Data Center: http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143&IF_Language=eng

·         The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) collects the data for more than 200 countries from member states and international organizations

·         Contains over 1,000 types of indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication

World Bank datasets on Human Development and Public Services Research: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?theSitePK=477916&contentMDK=20681914&pagePK=64168182&piPK=64168060

·         Epidemiological impact of HIV/AIDS vaccine in developing countries

·         Composition of public expenditures and economic growth

·         What does aid to Africa finance?

·         Nigeria: Decentralized service delivery survey (health)

·         Educational attainment and enrollment around the world

·         Survey tools: Quantitative Service Delivery Surveys (QSDS) (health and education)

·         Survey tools: Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS)

World Governance Assessment (WGA): Assessing Governance Dataset http://www.odi.org.uk/wga_governance/Dataset.html

 

Worldwide Governance Indicators Project (WDI): Governance Matters 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi2007/

·         Aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996-2006 for six dimensions of governance (voice and accountability; political stability and absence of violence; government effectiveness; regulatory quality; rule of law; control of corruption)

·         The country data reports cite a number of sources; the country reports for sub-Saharan Africa are at http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi2007/pdf_country.asp?region_ID=1

 

Demographic and Vital Statistics

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) http://www.measuredhs.com/

·         Data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 200 surveys in over 75 countries

Minnesota Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International https://international.ipums.org/international/

·         Census microdata for social and economic research

World Health Organization (WHO) Data and Statistics: http://www.who.int/research/en/

·         WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS): national statistics for 50 core indicators on mortality, morbidity, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems

·         WHO Global InfoBase Online: data on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO Member States

·         Global Health Atlas: Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels

·         Regional statistics: statistical information from WHO Regional Offices. The Africa Region stats are at http://www.who.int/globalatlas/default.asp

 

International Migration

World Bank datasets on international migration and development: http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTINTERNATIONAL/0,,contentMDK:21087611~menuPK:3043414~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:1572893,00.html

·         Measuring brain drain by gender

·         Medical brain drain

·         Brain drain with age of entry

·         Brain drain database

·         Global migrant origin database

 

Social Science Data Portals

Harvard-MIT Virtual Data Center Network http://vdc.hmdc.harvard.edu/VDC/index.jsp

·         Excellent source for social sciences (including and beyond economics); keyword searchable

·         Holds the World Value Surveys, among other things

·         Login at top right

Internet Crossroads for resources related to social science data http://www.disc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp

·         Data depository at the University of Wisconsin Madison

·         Links to 825 data-related resources in 26 subject areas

·         Includes statistical offices of several smaller countries and organizations

UCLA Institute for Social Science Research: Data Archives Home http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/

·         Wealth of social science surveys, including several from Africa

 

Other Data

African Development Bank (AfDB) Economic and Social Statistics Division: http://www.afdb.org/portal/page?_pageid=473,8878258&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

·         Gender, Poverty, and Environmental Indicators on African Countries 2007

·         Selected Statistics on African Countries 2007

·         Compendium of Statistics on Bank Group Operations 2007

·         The ADB Statistics Pocketbook 2007

 

United Nations Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm

 

·         Commodity Trade Statistics Database (COMTRADE)

·         Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online (MBS Online)

·         Census Knowledge Base

·         Common Database (UNCDB)

·         Demographic Yearbook system

·         Distat, the United Nations Disability Statistics Database

·         Good practices database

·         InfoNation

·         Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI)

·         Millennium Indicators Database

·         National Accounts Main Aggregates Database

·         Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants

·         Population and housing censuses: census dates

·         Population and Vital Statistics on Internet

·         Service Trade Statistics

·         Social Indicators

·         Statistics and indicators on women and men

 

World Bank data and statistics portal: http://www.worldbank.org/data

 

·         World Development Indicators (WDI)

·         Atlas of Millennium Development Goals

·         Global Development Finance – summary and country tables

·        IDA14 Result Management System

·        Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics

·        International Comparison Program

·        Millennium Development Goals

·         Statistical Capacity Building

 

 

This page is a work in progress. Suggestions of links to add are very welcome. Please send them to epepe AT nber.org.