D A T A

• World Bank Data
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/data.htm
  
  
• Bureau of Economic Analysis International Accounts Data
  http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/di1.htm
  
  
• The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
  http://www2.ucsc.edu/atlas/
  
  
• International Data Base
  http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
  part of http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/
  
  
• ISA Data Archive
  http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/data/data.html
  
  
• USAID Data Base 1994
  Latin America and The Caribbean Selected Economic and Social Data
  (data in text format)
  http://lanic.utexas.edu:80/la/region/aid/aid94/
  
  
• The Latin America Development Archive Data Sets
  (text and SPSS format)
  http://www.jhu.edu/~soc/.ladark/.datasets/toc_dat.htm
  
  
• Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics
  http://www.cbs.gov.il/menu-e.htm
  
  
• National Bureau of Economic Research Online Data
  http://www.nber.org/data_index.html
  
  
• UN Trade Statistics in text format
  gopher://gopher.unicc.org:70/11/itc/dir3
  
  
• United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (in .txt)
  http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~uncjin/wcs.html
  
  
• UNDP Human Development Index 1999 ; 1998 ; 1997 ; 1996
  
  
• Inter-American Develoment Bank Economic and Social Database http://www.iadb.org/int/sta/ENGLISH/staweb/dbase_esdb_frame.htm
  
• OPEC’s annual statistical report has data on trade between oil exporters and the regions or blocs importing oil. (under publications)
  
  
• U.N. Statistics: Comtrade. One can determine how much a country imports or exports of a specific commodity to or from the world, a region, or a nation, 1962-2002. Must login.
  
  
• The European Union’s documentation of global trade in goods and services by region, in graphs
  
  
• Mbendi examines trade blocs’, individual countries’, and regions’ share of the world export market.
  
  
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s, OECD’s, trade statistics on goods and services exchanged by the EU, NAFTA, OECD -Asia Pacific, OECD - Europe, G7, OECD Total, and World. 1989-2000
  Estimates of world and OECD trade in services: Excel file (500k)
  
• UNCTAD’s General Trade information
  • UNCTADS’s more specific databases:
  • Intra-trade of trade blocs as percentage of total export of each trade bloc
  • Trade in services of developing countries: 20 major exporters (millions of dollars)With transport and tourism figures specifically indicated within total
  • Foreign Direct Investment host economies in 2001 (millions of dollars): (Top ten Developed and Top Ten Developing Countries)