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Latest additions
12 July
2008:
Word Bank Country Diagnostic Surveys
Governance and Corruption Country
Surveys contain information and data on governance and
corruption vulnerabilities based on surveys of citizens,
business people, and public sector workers.
12 July 2008:
Human Resources for Health
Papers on
the planning,
production, and management of human resources for
health
25 April 2008:
TIMSS and PIRLS School Characteristics and Student Database
(Boston College)
Click on "Open TIMSS & PIRLS" on the right-hand-side to access the
database.
Database on classroom practices, computer access,
demographics, early educational experience, home
environment, out of school activities, school climate,
student attitudes, and test scores.
25 April 2008: New blog
The Kaufmann Governance Post "Why
transparency, governance and corruption matter, and what we
can all do about it"
25 April 2008:
ReliefWeb Humanitarian Aid Database (UN)
Database on all reported
international humanitarian aid (includes NGOs, bilateral
aid, in-kind aid, and private donations).
Allows you
to search contributions by donor and/or to the destination
country for the current and previous years.
7 March 2008: New blogs
The Better Aid Blog
"Assessing government performance on development aid"
Ending World Poverty "Creating
and sharing knowledge to help end poverty"
Poverty and Growth Blog
"Building capacity to reduce poverty"
23 February 2008:
New
category: Devblogs
Contains links to development
blogs.
23 February 2008:
Chr. Michelsen Institute
(CMI)
CMI reports, CMI working papers and references to external
publications by CMI researchers.
23 February 2008:
Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition (WHO)
23 February 2008:
World Education Indicators by Country Latest Available Year
(UNESCO)
19 January 2008:
UNU-WIDER Publications (WIDER)
WIDER working papers, policy briefs and annual
lectures.
17 January 2008:
Open Budget Index by Country (CBPP)
"The Open Budget Index is computed using the average of the
responses to 91 of the questions on the Open Budget
Questionnaire in 2006. These questions cover the public
availability of budget information in seven key budget
documents."
"This database consists of a
226x226 matrix of origin-destination migration stocks by country. The data
are generated by disaggregating the information on migrant stock in each
destination country as given in its census."
11 January 2008:
Globalization Index
(KOF)
The KOF
index of globalization is available for 122 countries for
the period 1970-2005 and measures three dimensions of
globalization: economic, social and political.
23 December 2007:
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC is a
very useful database which provides free access to more than
1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and
other education-related materials and, if available,
includes links to full text.
23 December 2007:
UNESCO Documents and Publications (UNESCO)
Bibliographic records and full text of many UNESCO
documents, publications and periodicals since 1945.
17 December 2007:
MIT online economics courses
Very useful
free course materials used at MIT. Access to lecture notes
and problem sets. Watch lecture videos and demonstrations.
11 December 2007:
Enterprise Surveys (World Bank)
Combines the data from the World
Bank/EBRD's Business Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPs)
and the World Bank's Investment Climate Assesments (ICAs).
Data available on more than 70,000 firms in 104 countries
for 2002-2006. Data cover business perceptions and dozens of
indicators on the quality of the business environment.
11 December 2007:
Privatization Database (World Bank)
Information on privatization
transactions of at least $1 million by country/region/sector
for 2000-2005.
6 December 2007:
Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (EBPDN)
Provides
access to development research sorted by
sector/type/theoretical approach.
23 November 2007:
RAND Corporation family life surveys
for Indonesia, Guatemala, Malaysia and Bangladesh
The Family Life Surveys are a
set of detailed household and community surveys of
developing countries conducted by the RAND Corporation, in
collaboration with research institutions in the given
countries. The currently available country surveys cover
Malaysia (1976-77, 1988-89), Indonesia (1993, 1997, 2000),
Guatemala (1995), and Bangladesh (1996).
18 October 2007:
Remittance data
by country
and region, latest year available
(IFAD)
The
worldwide remittance map provides remittance data
(estimates) for 162 developing countries and 20 sub-regions
for the latest year available.
14 October 2007:
Gapminder
Moving graphics and interactive
presentations show the development progress of all countries
by the indicators you choose.
8 October 2007:
People & the Planet
Information
resource on people and the environment.
1 October 2007:
Database of Political Institutions
(Beck,
Clarke, Groff, Keefer, and Walsh 2000-2004)
Contains data on political
institutions for 1975-2004.
1 October 2007:
Assessing Governance Dataset
(ODI)
The dataset includes 30 indicators for 16 developing
countries for the years 1996 and 2000.
1 October 2007: Globalhealthfacts.org
Health data by country and/or topic.
19 September 2007:
Entrepreneurship Database
(World Bank)
Includes cross-country,
time-series data on the number of total and newly registered
businesses for 84 countries over the period 2003-2005
collected directly from Registrar of Companies.
2 September 2007:
New data
category: Private Sector
Contains links to survey data on enterprises
and business environment.
15 August, 2007:
Focuss.eu
Website that provides a search engine
for practitioners, researchers and students in the
area of global development studies.
July 22, 2007:
Central Asian Gateway
(CAG)
Contains links to websites, statistics and
papers on development economics for Central Asian countries.
July 21, 2007:
Development Economics and
Economic Development
Contains links to books, websites, blogs and
papers on development economics.
July 15, 2007:
Failed States Index (The Fund for Peace)
Based on twelve indicators in the three
categories social, economic and political
indicators.
July
12, 2007:
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Working Papers
(MIT)
July 11, 2007:
DataGob Database
(IDB)
Access
to 400 governance indicators by country and year.
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