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2007 Global Corruption Barometer

After five years of surveying the general public's views and experiences of corruption, Transparency International's 2007 Global Corruption Barometer survey shows that bribery is still prevalent in many countries, but that citizens are increasingly demanding accountability from their governments (Transparency International, 6 December 2007).

http://www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2007/gcb_2007

(Added: Tue Dec 11 2007   Hits: 160)

A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers

Quantifying human rights abuses and atrocities is proving to do more than produce numbers. Human Rights Data Program is a technology company with a social justice focus that is bringing the power of quantitative analysis to a field otherwise full of anecdote (CSM, 7 February 2008).

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0207/p20s01-wogn.html?page=2

(Added: Fri Feb 08 2008   Hits: 77)

Bribe Payers Index 2006

The Transparency International Bribe Payers Surveys evaluate the supply side of corruption - the propensity of firms from industrialised countries to bribe abroad.

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/bpi

(Added: Tue Oct 16 2007   Hits: 61)

DATABASE OF GENDER STATISTICS

A DATABASE OF GENDER STATISTICS Developed by the Gender and Development Group (PREM Gender) and the Development Data Group in the Development Economics Vice-Presidency.

http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/

(Added: Mon Nov 22 1999   Modified: Thu Dec 22 2005   Hits: 757)

Demographic and Health Surveys Statcompiler

The DHS STATcompiler is an innovative online database tool that allows users to select numerous countries and hundreds of indicators to create customized tables that serve their specific data needs. The STATcompiler accesses nearly all of the population and health indicators that are published in DHS final reports with just the click of the mouse.

http://www.measuredhs.com/data/indicators/start.cfm

(Added: Wed Jan 10 2001   Hits: 324)

Development Statistics: Latin America

Our goal is to provide the public, U.S. government agencies and international development partners access to the highest quality socio-economic data on countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

http://qesdb.cdie.org/lac/index.html

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EM-DAT : the OFDA/CRED International Disasters Data Base

Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database - EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government. The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. For example, it allows on to decide whether floods in a given country are more significant in terms of its human impact than earthquakes or whether a country is more vulnerable than another for computing resources is. EMDAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.

http://www.em-dat.net/

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Freedom House

Freedom House, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Through a vast array of international programs and publications, Freedom House is working to advance the remarkable worldwide expansion of political and economic freedom.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=1

(Added: Thu Nov 01 2007   Hits: 78)

Gender Equity Index 2008

The economic dimension is the next challenge towards global gender equity. More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress towards gender equity in recent years. That is one of the findings of the Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2008 (Social Watch, 2008).

http://www.socialwatch.org/en/avancesyRetrocesos/IEG_2008/tablas/valoresdelIEG2008.htm

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Global Education Database

There are 145 indicators compiled from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and 62 indicators compiled from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), a USAID program that has conducted full-scale nationally representative household surveys in over 60 developing countries since 1984.

http://qesdb.cdie.org/ged/index.html

(Added: Sun Apr 01 2001   Hits: 261)

Global education digest 2007: comparing education statistics across the world

This edition of the Global Education Digest focuses on the financing of education and provides a series of indicators to compare spending patterns across countries and levels of education.The report reviews how levels of education in certain countries compare to those of others with similar economic resources and student populations (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007).

http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/ged/2007/EN_web2.pdf

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Global Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Database

You are invited to visit the Global IDP Database launched on December 10, 1999. Inside you will find comprehensive coverage of internal displacement in fourteen countries. In the coming months we will be bringing you regular updates to the database plus coverage of an additional twenty-one countries by the end of 2000.

http://www.idpproject.org/sites/idpsurvey.nsf/WebCountryMenu?OpenForm

(Added: Fri Dec 17 1999   Hits: 234)

Human Development Report 2007

Human Development Report 2007/2008 looks at Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world (UNDP, 2007)

http://hdr.undp.org/en/

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International Data Base (IDB)

The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

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Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt

This site provides the latest international data available, mainly from creditor sources, on the external debt of developing and transition countries and territories.

http://www1.oecd.org/dac/debt/

(Added: Tue Mar 16 1999   Hits: 255)

Key Indicators 2002: Population and Human Resource Trends and Challenges

The Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2002 is the 33rd edition of this flagship annual statistical data book of ADB. It features 31 regional tables that compare the Millennium Development Goals, economic, financial, and other social indicators across the 40 developing member countries of ADB. It also contains 38 country tables, each with 18-year data series on: population; labor force and employment; national accounts; production; energy; price indices; money and banking; government finance; external trade; balance of payments; international reserves; exchange rates; external indebtedness. In addition to this comprehensive set of data, there is also a theme chapter that examines the population and human resource trends and challenges in the Asia and Pacific region.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2002/default.asp

(Added: Mon Aug 19 2002   Modified: Fri Aug 05 2005   Hits: 206)

MDG Monitor

The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Progress is shown through interactive maps, profiles and news.

http://www.mdgmonitor.org/

(Added: Fri Nov 02 2007   Hits: 118)

Millennium Development Goals indicator database

The "MDG Dashboard of Sustainability" is a free, non-commercial software which allows to present complex relationships between economic, social and environmental issues in a highly communicative format aimed at decision-makers and citizens interested in Sustainable Development. The database contains 40 MDG indicators for about 200 countries.

http://esl.jrc.it/envind/mdg.htm

(Added: Fri Mar 04 2005   Modified: Wed Dec 07 2005   Hits: 458)

NationMaster

NationMaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. The site seeks to be the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on everything from soldiers to wall plug voltages. You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables, and refer to fully integrated encyclopedia with over one million articles.

http://www.nationmaster.com/

(Added: Wed Sep 06 2006   Hits: 79)

Official Development Assistance- Statistics

Statistics from the OECD on official development assistance levels for 2007.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/55/40381862.pdf

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Online Community Development Resource Kit

an on-line community development resource by the Community Development Group, Department of Internal Affairs, Aotearoa-New Zealand.

http://www.dia.govt.nz/businesses/cdg/index.html

(Added: Wed Nov 06 2002   Modified: Wed Jun 21 2006   Hits: 255)

Penn World Table Version 6.1

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000. Developed by Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten at the Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP) in October 2002

http://datacentre2.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/

(Added: Mon Feb 23 2004   Hits: 210)

Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review

Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review reports on how well the world is doing in meeting its commitments for the world's children. This UNICEF special edition analyses progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in four priority areas for children: promoting healthy lives, providing a quality education, combating HIV and AIDS, and protecting against abuse, exploitation and violence (UNICEF, December 2007).

http://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2007n6/files/Progress_for_Children_-_No._6.pdf

(Added: Tue Dec 11 2007   Hits: 50)

Social Development Indicators ('Flash' Website)

"[We will] ensure that reliable statistics and statistical indicators are used to develop and assess social policies and programmes so that economic and social resources are used efficiently and effectively"

http://www.socwatch.org.uy/en/indicadoresDesarrollo/flash_content/index.html?lan=en&ind=A4

(Added: Fri Oct 15 1999   Modified: Fri Oct 03 2003   Hits: 248)

Social Watch development Indicators

The Social Watch Development Indicators section has interactive maps and global information about development.

http://www.socwatch.org.uy/en/indicadoresDesarrollo/indicadores.htm

(Added: Wed Nov 10 2004   Modified: Wed Jan 17 2007   Hits: 398)

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