Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
Source Fogel, Costa, Edwards, Johnson, Weil
This data portal was created by the NBER Africa Project, co-directed by Sebastian Edwards, Simon Johnson, and David N. Weil, as a way to systematize public-use data on Sub-Saharan Africa. There are hundreds of datasets available on the internet but no easy way to find them, or to know at a glance what they contain.
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