Name: Global Economic Prospects
Creator: World Bank Group
Published: 2012-01-14

The BOOST initiative is a Bank-wide collaborative effort launched in 2010 to facilitate access to budget data and promote effective use for improved decision-making processes, transparency and accountability.

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

This collection contains datasets that may be useful for analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

The Data360 initiative aims to integrate high-value data and knowledge curated in the Bank’s verticals into a user-centered data platform. 

Data 360

The Development Data Partnership platform facilitates formation of public-private partnerships for solving development challenges with technology. Specifically, the Development Data Partnership Working Group organizes opportunities for WBG staff to work with technology companies who offer pro-bono data and resources.

Development Data Partnership

This collection contains discrepancy indexes for UN COMTRADE data that aims to capture both the frequency of missed reporting and its impact on overall recorded trade value

Discrepancy Index

A collection of datasets produced through partnership between the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) initiative.

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

Open data and analytics for a sustainable energy future.

Energy Data Info

This collection features datasets to support building policies, institutions and investments for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

Project Page: https://worldbank.github.io/GEEST/README.html 

As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, open-source Gender-related spatial data was collected for 31 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented geodatabases (GDBs) that are now ready to be explored! 
Fifty-nine spatial layers were identified and then researched for each country, covering the following categories: Demographics and Population | Renewable Energy | Energy Access | Education | Jobs and Finance | Digital Inclusion | Transportation | Safety | Amenities | Climate/Earth | Law/Policy/Government. 


However, not every country GDB contains all 59 data layers, as this was dependent on the availability of open-source data in each SIDS. Users are encouraged to check the accompanying metadata excel file for more information on the datasets in each GDB, the vintage, and the

Gender Spatial Data - Small Island States

A collection of datasets that contain geospatial data. These datasets have one or more resources in a geospatial data format.

Geospatial Datasets

Collection of useful datasets from IMF made available to Bank staff via <a href=http://mydatabank.worldbank.org>myDataBank</a>

IMF Dataset

A collection of datasets to help finance the global infrastructure gap.

Infrastructure Finance Datasets

Data and dataset subscriptions managed by the Library Network on agriculture, business, economics, energy, finance, health, risk, water, and more..

Library Databases

The LinkedIn-World Bank partnership offers data to help governments and researchers understand rapidly evolving labor markets with detailed and dynamic data. It allows leaders to benchmark and compare labor markets across the world; analyze skills, occupations, migration, and industries; and leverage real-time data to make policy changes.Visualizations for many of these data are available at <a href=https://linkedindata.worldbank.org/>linkedindata.worldbank.org</a>

LinkedIn Data for Development

Collection of merchandise trade data available to World Bank staff.

Merchandise Trade Data

This collection includes datasets associated with research organized under the Bank, <a href=http://prwp.worldbank.org target='_blank' title='Opens in a new window'>Policy Research Working Papers</a>.

Policy Research Working Papers

This collection contains data on disaster and climate risk assessments curated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Risk Data Library

This collection presents software tools and models developed by the World Bank to support monitoring, planning, programming and the economic evaluation of roads and highways works.

Road Software Tools

This spatial database, a product of the South Asia Region Chief Economist's (SARCE) Office, presents data collected from official sources and harmonized into different spatial levels. Data includes economic and environmental data across 12 topic areas, and includes data from four countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) for both 2001 and 2011.

SARCE Spatial Database

A collection of country Small Area Estimation (SAE) and Poverty Mapping that contains papers, shapefiles, and datasets produced through partnerships between the World Bank and country statistics offices.

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

This collection consists of datasets compiled and created by the World Bank Data Lab in response to a request by the Syria Economic Monitor Team to explore alternative data sources to better understand changing trends in trade and economic activity, focusing on: surface cross-border transport routes, changes in observed agricultural production, observed nighttime lights, and reported conflict.

Syria Economic Monitor

A collection of relevant datasets to support operations in Ukraine.

Ukraine datasets

Catalogue lists all the data produced under the partnership contracts between the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency

World Bank (WBG) - European Space Agency (ESA) Database

A collection of datasets to help achieve universal access to reliable and fast internet services for all.

World Bank Digital Development Data

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable energy for all.

World Bank Energy Datasets

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable mobility for all.

World Bank Transport Data

From Data to a Water-Secure World for All. World Bank Water Data surrounding the three pillars of Sustain Water Resources, Deliver Services and Build Resilience.

World Bank Water Data

The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways. The data used in the WDR2021 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2021

The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role of finance in the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it looks into the consequences of the crisis most likely to affect emerging economies and proposes a set of policies to mitigate the interconnected financial risks stemming from the pandemic and to steer economies toward a sustainable and equitable recovery. The data used in the WDR2022 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2022

The World Settlement Footprint Collection includes country datasets describing the evolution of the built-area across the globe at a ~30m resolution.

World Settlement Footprint

An insight into the Italian economy from an analysis based on the industrial production index in both frequency and time domains

Global Liquidity, the Private Sector and Debt Sustainability in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Macroeconomic Effects of 21st Century Trade and Investment Agreements: The Case of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Do migrants transfer productive knowledge back to their origin countries?

An empirical analysis of Pakistans bilateral trade and trade potential with China: A gravity model approach

Urban agriculture, dietary diversity and child health in a sample of Tanzanian town folk

Systemic crisis, weltschmerz and tourism: meaning without incense during vacations

Food security though public stockholdings and trade distortions

The Emerging Pattern of African Economic Engagement with China and the Rising South: Implications for Africas Structural Transformation

The impact of remittances on Sudans economic growth: does the exchange rate matter?

Social and economic aspects of the recent fall in global oil prices

Do energy prices affect US investor sentiment?

Why dont remittances appear to affect growth?

Friendship fears and communities of convenience in Africas urban estuaries: Connection as measure of urban condition

Remittances and return migration

Risky Coping

Uneven development and displaced care in Sri Lanka

The linkages between international migration, remittances and household welfare in Nigeria

Remittances and vote buying

Intellectual capital and performance: Taxonomy of components and multi-dimensional analysis axes

Managing Culture and Money: Some Critical Issues Facing African Management and Managers

Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world: A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report

No trans-pacific partnership? Good or bad for Mexico?

Prospects of open government data (OGD) in facilitating the economic diversification of GCC region

Do We Need a GCC Bank to Facilitate the Economic Turnaround of the GCC Region?

Managing commercial actors in strategic networks in emergency preparedness: A study of multiple networks from Sweden

Interactive innovative tool for early diagnosis of global pre-crisis processes (based on measurement and assessment of the virtual intellectual capital)

From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence

Corporate social responsibility practices in India: approach, drivers, and barriers

Remittances and economic growth in developing countries

Performance, representation and the economics of border control in Uzbekistan

Migration, transfers and economic decision making among agricultural households: an introduction

Wired people in wired places: Stories about machines and the geography of activity

Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship (CSRE): antidotes to poverty, insecurity and underdevelopment in Nigeria

The impact of education, economy and culture on entrepreneurial motives, barriers and intentions: A comparative study of the United States and Turkey

Ontology-based e-learning personalisation for disabled students in higher education

Does governance quality promote innovation in sub-Saharan Africa? An empirical study across 37 countries

Does population pressure induce farm intensification? Empirical evidence from Tigrai Region, Ethiopia

Flujo internacional de conocimientos y productividad: un estudio de la industria manufacturera en México

Has the sovereign debt crisis changed the cyclicality of Portuguese remittances?

Remittances, Institutions and Growth in Africa

Remittances, monetary institutions, and autocracies

Temporary labour migration and underdevelopment in Sri Lanka: the limits of remittance capital

Workers Remittances, Capital Inflows, and Economic Growth in Developing Asia and the Pacific

Industrialization as driver of sustainable economic growth in Africa

Overview Case Analysis Applied to Evaluate Technology Transfer Projects of a Mexican Public University

United States and Its Challenge to Multilateralism in the Global Economy

On the relationship between the breadth of preferential trading arrangements and trade flows

Speculation and corn prices

Poverty effects of food price escalation and mitigation options: The case of Malaysia

Experimentalist systems in manufacturing multinationals: German automobile and machinery examples

Remittances and protest in dictatorships

Forced transnationalism and temporary labour migration: implications for understanding migrant rights

A tide that does not lift all boats: the surge of remittances in post-disaster recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines

Impact of intellectual capital on corporate performance: evidence from the Arab region

Prospects for fertility decline in Africa

Remittances and development in Latin America

The role of markets and policies in delivering innovation for climate change mitigation

Income distribution trends and future food demand

International technology transfer, climate change, and the clean development mechanism

Why is it so difficult? Trade liberalization under the Doha Agenda

What can we learn about the “resource curse” from foreign aid?

CDM and international technology transfer: empirical evidence on wind power

Solar energy in sub-Saharan Africa: The challenges and opportunities of technological leapfrogging

International cooperation in the solution to trade-related invasive species risksa

The TRIPS Agreement and transfer of climate-change-related technologies to developing countries

The empire strikes back: Economic statecraft and the securitisation of political economy in Russia

GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources.

Global Economic Prospects

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