Introduction to Comparative Politics: Development

Includes the African Development Report and the AfDB Statistics Pocketbook.

Excellent new resource from the College of William & Mary, Brigham Young U, and the Development Gateway. Data on commitments and disbursments from 1945-2009; search by donor, recipient, purpose, activity, and more. Also contains working papers and publications with additional data.

Data and visualization tool on development assistance (aid) between countries; new tool from the World Bank and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee.

An index of basic social indicators across 175+ countries.

A list of data sources specific to developing countries from Duke's Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

Scroll down to paper: Aid, Policies and Growth, with David Dollar. American Economic Review 90(4), 2000, 847-68 -- Dataset for this paper includes measures for institutional quality, ethnic fractionalization, government consumption of GDP, more.

Links to many datasets relevant to development.

From the Center for Global Development, measures wealthy nations on indicators relevant to their commitment to aiding developing nations.

Measures the health and nutrition of women and children in developing countries.

Data concerns policies, aid, and development. Includes ethnic fractionalization index.

From Social Watch, measures education, economic activity, and empowerment gap.

Macro time series, micro time series, government finance, and social indicators including ethnic fractionalization, party fractionalization, regime changes, and fixed factors. 1960-99. Easterly and Yu.

Historical financial time series, some dating back to 1265. Includes datasets in 10 topics: Asset Allocation, Commodities, Economic, Equity, Exchange Rates, Fixed Income, Development, Government and Debt, International Trade, and National Accounts. Carleton subscribes.

Measures hunger and malnutrition in poor and developing nations, from the International Food Policy Research Institute.

AT Kearney's index of retail investment attractiveness among 30 emerging markets, 2004-current.

From AT Kearney, measures connectedness of 60+ countries (2003-2007).

An index from nef, an independent organization, that measures well-being of 143 countries against their ecological footprints.

From the United Nations Development Programme, a composite index evaluating health, education, and living standards across the world's countries. 1990 - current.

Go here to access the PDFs of the Human Development Reports since 1990.

From DARA, measures wealthy nations' aid programs.

Working papers and statistics.

Go to the Central Survey Catalog to access censuses and surveys done in developing countries, with metadata.

Professor James McGuire of Wesleyan University shares the data from his research papers, including development data for developing countries around the world, Argentinian provinces, Brazilian states, more.

Measures economic, social, political dimensions of globalization across 158 countries, 1970-2007. From Alex Dreher.

From the UN, social and economic data on the world's least developed nations.

From the World Bank, measures privatization transactions in developing nations.

Detailed information on UNDP's 6000+ development projects in 177 countries.

Create visualizations of 175+ World Bank development indicators for countries around the world.

A guide to the economic, social, and environmental state of the world today. Each report provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of development—from agriculture, the role of the state, transition economies, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty.

1000+ economic, social, environmental, and governance time series indicators (1960-current) across 200 countries and 18 country groups.