Data and Analysis
- World Bank Databases This link opens in a new windowExplore different databases maintained by the World Bank, including the World Development Indicators (WDI) and the Global Economic Monitor (GEM). (World Bank)
- World Bank Documents and Reports This link opens in a new windowSearch for reports and working papers published by the World Bank on international and country-specific economic, development, and environmental issues. (World Bank)
- IMF eLibrary This link opens in a new windowAccess international financial statistics (IFS), balance of payments statistics (BOPS), direction of trade statistics (DOTS), and government finance statistics (GFS) covering more than 200 countries and areas. (International Monetary Fund)
- Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new windowAccess country, industry and company data and analysis from more than 500 sources for emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. The database includes country profiles; macroeconomic statistics, forecasts, and analysis; exchange rates; analyst reports; and business news. Note: Only 2 users may access this database at one time. (ISI Emerging Markets Group)
- United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) This link opens in a new windowAccess official UN documents and selected UN maps, as well as speech and voting records. (United Nations)
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new windowAccess reports on each of the world’s countries, with a focus on the political and economic situation as well as demographic, cultural and environmental news and information. (CountryWatch)
- Country Risk Reports (Mergent Archives) This link opens in a new windowAccess political, economic and commercial information on over 130 countries worldwide. Each report contains a Country Risk Indicator Summary, Key Statistics, and in-depth analysis of Political Risk, Macroeconomic Risk, Commercial Risk, and External Economic Risk. This database is updated weekly. (LSEG - Mergent)
- Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) - Transparency InternationalRanking of the levels of corruption in 180 countries determined by experts and surveys.
Public Opinion/Survey
- iPOLL This link opens in a new windowSearch an archive of public opinion polls from US and international polling firms since 1935 on topics such as social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and more. Note: You must create an account to download the datasets. (Cornell University)
- Inter-University Consortium For Political & Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window*Create an account to download the dataset files. In this database, find datasets of social, economic, and political research. Deposited data covers topic such as consumer behavior, the environment, social behavior, political behavior, government, conflict/war, education, healthcare, and more. Datasets are available as ASCII, SPSS, SAS, and Stata DTA files. (University of Michigan)
- Pew Research Center: Politics & Policy"[Pew Research Center] conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, computational social science research and other data-driven research.
"[Pew] studies a wide range of topics including politics and policy; news habits and media; the internet and tehcnology;' religion; race and ethnicity; international affairs; social, demographic and economic trends, science, research methodology and data science; and immigration and migration." - Louis Harris Data Center Dataverse (@ Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC Chapel Hill)"Since 1965, the Odum Institute has operated the Louis Harris Data Center, the national depository for publicly available survey data collected by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. More than 1,000 Harris polls from as early as 1958 are archived at the Center and contain over 160,000 questions asked of more than 1,200,000 respondents."
- AfrobarometerProvides reports and datasets of public opinion surveys of various African countries.
- AmericasBarometer - LAPOPMeasures attitudes and behaviors of voting-age adults in the Americas covering such topics as democracy, corruption, transparency, etc. done by the Latin American Public Opinion Project
- Arab BarometerProvides reports and data on public opinion regarding domestic and international issues in various Middle Eastern countries.
- EurobarometerProvides reports of attitudes of European Union member countries' citizens.