Ressources

Bases de données

devecondata: http://devecondata.blogspot.ch/

  • Provide background information on datasets relevant to development economics and economic history research
  • Various country, research topics, and data types

 

Quality of Government (QoG) dataset: http://qog.pol.gu.se/

  • Approximately 2500 variables aggregated from various original datasets
  • Data about political parties, election corruption, legal origins, military expenditures, education, welfare, economic development, religion, etc

 

Maddison Project: http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm 

  •  Economic performance (GDP) for different regions, time periods and subtopics

 

Measuring Worth: https://www.measuringworth.com/

  • Various economic aggregates in nominal price, as well as real prices
  • GDP, long-run inflation rate, wages, Dollar exchange rate, stock growth comparator
  • Data on the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia

 

Various economic history databases: http://eh.net/databases/

 

 

Switzerland


 Swiss National Bank (SNB): http://www.snb.ch/fr/iabout/stat

  • Various Swiss macroeconomic indicators

 

Swiss Federal Statistical Office: https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/default.aspx?px_language=en

  • Data about population, mobility, migration, public administration, trade, crime, etc

 

 

France


Séries longues macroéconomiques (CEPII) : http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/bdd_modele/presentation.asp?id=31

  • Human capital, industrial production, national accounts, and various annual GDP estimations
  • Late 19th century and 20th century

 

 

International organizations


 Eurostat: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/home

  • Macroeconomic indicators, international trade, national accounts, exchange rates, balance of payments
  • Data in relation to European demographic and economic issues
  • 1960 onwards
  • EU's member states

 

International Monetary Fund (IMF): http://www.imf.org/en/Data

  • Time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators

 

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): http://stats.oecd.org/

  • Data on GDP, FDI, health, unemployment, income distribution, population, labour, education, trade, finance, prices, economic outlook, government debt, social expenditure
  • 1970 onwards
  • OECD's member countries

 

United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD): http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/data.asp

  • National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
  • 1970 onwards

 

World Bank (WB): http://data.worldbank.org/

  • Doing Business (DB) indicator, Global Consumption Database, International Debt Statistics (IDS), World Development Indicators
  • GDP, health and education statistics, gender statistics, poverty indicators, climate change data, etc
  • Visualisation tools

 

World Trade Organization (WTO): https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm

  • Quantitative information in relation to economic and trade policy issues