Of particular interest to our students of business and international affairs should be the iniative just undertaken by the World Bank to share many of their prime indicators and databases - for free!
The World Bank recently announced that they will offer free access to over 2,000 indicators (including many that go back 50 years) through the new online data portal they launched on April 20th at: http://data.worldbank.org/
This new site contains the full World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), and Africa Development Indicators (ADI), along with other World Bank databases, including Global Economic Monitor (GEM) (up till now these databases were only availabale via subscription). The new site is designed for both novice and advanced users: you can access basic data by country, topic, and region, as well as download datasets in Excel, CSD, XML, and other formats. Users can also access and retrieve data through the DataBank (a platform similar to that of the previous WDI, GDF and ADI platforms). The site links to the World Bank Data API (encouraging developers to create new applications using the data), DataFinder, and World Bank's new iPhone application.
For a full list of available data sets available go to: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog. Most data is available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
This new site contains the full World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), and Africa Development Indicators (ADI), along with other World Bank databases, including Global Economic Monitor (GEM) (up till now these databases were only availabale via subscription). The new site is designed for both novice and advanced users: you can access basic data by country, topic, and region, as well as download datasets in Excel, CSD, XML, and other formats. Users can also access and retrieve data through the DataBank (a platform similar to that of the previous WDI, GDF and ADI platforms). The site links to the World Bank Data API (encouraging developers to create new applications using the data), DataFinder, and World Bank's new iPhone application.
For a full list of available data sets available go to: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog. Most data is available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
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