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Weblinks

All links provided below were active on website launch. However, due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, links do occasionally become inactive. If you find a link that has become inactive, please try using a search engine to locate the website in question.

General Information About Economic Growth

• The World Bank
  A wealth of information on the developing world. Look in particular at the links for "data and statistics," "research," and "topics in development."
• The World Bank's annual World Development Report
  A full of data and analysis, is available online.
• United Nations Development Programme
  Information about and analyses of developing countries with an emphasis on poverty, health, the environment, and governance. You can also download their annual Human Development Report.
• Resources for Economists on the Internet
  Maintained by Bill Goffe, this site has links to numerous data sources, online encyclopedias and glossaries, directories of economists, and so on.
• The CIA World Fact Book
  A great source for information on geography, political structure, economy, resources, and so on. It also has useful political histories for most countries.
• Jameel Poverty Action Lab
  A network of economists around the world who are united by their use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation.

Sources of Data

• Gapminder
  A superb interface for envisioning data on income and many other indicators, both differences among countries and how these have evolved over time.
• The Penn World Tables
  National income accounts data (GDP, consumption, investment, etc.) measured using purchasing power parity for almost 200 countries, starting in 1950.
• World Development Indicators Database (World Bank)
  The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
• Population Reference Bureau Data Finder
  This database contains data on 133 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole.
• Groningen Growth and Development Centre
  Several databases covering indicators of growth, development, and productivity. Includes a good deal of data on indicators of development going back several centuries.
• U.S. Census International Data Bank
  A good source for population data from around the world. Includes fertility, mortality, breakdown of the population by age groups, and data going back many decades.
• The BP Statistical Review of World Energy
  All the data you could ever want on oil, coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, and renewable energy.
• Governance Matters (World Bank)
  Data on rule of law, corruption, political stability, and other governance indicators for over 200 countries for the period starting in 1996.
• Freedom in the World (Freedom House)
  Their “Freedom in the World” (under the “reports” tab) is a ranking of political rights and civil liberties, issued annually.