Your own little slice of World Bank Open Data
A number of World Bank Open Data users have been taking advantage of the new Databank. Databank offers over 8,000 indicators with which to create and save custom reports with tables, charts, or maps....
View ArticleHow do we manage revisions to GDP?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates are some of the most heavily requested and used data published on data.worldbank.org. And as many users notice, the estimates are sometimes revised, occasionally...
View ArticleWhat does World Development Indicators tell us about South-South trade?
Merchandise trade has become an increasingly important contributor to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), particularly for developing countries. Before the global financial crisis hit in 2008,...
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Data, Differences, and Digging Deeper
Explaining the differences in today’s global society is a topic that clearly captures the interest of many: as I write this blog, the hardback version of Thomas Piketty’s new book “Capital in the...
View ArticleMuch of the world is deprived of poverty data. Let’s fix this.
Cross posted from the Let's Talk Development Blog Data Deprivation The availability of poverty data has increased over the last 20 years but large gaps remain About half the countries we studied in...
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