-
Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey
The Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey is a unique source of comparable economy-level data on how banks are regulated and supervised around the world. In the early 2000s,... -
Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators
The Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) database is a unique cross-national dataset on public sector employment and wages that aims to fill an information gap, thereby... -
Procuring Infrastructure - Public-Private Partnership
Procuring Infrastructure PPPs: Adherence to Best Regulatory Practices is a collection of comparable and actionable data on the procurement of large-scale public-private... -
A gendered assessment of the brain drain
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a... -
Global Jobs Indicators Database
The Global Jobs Indicators Database, JOIN, presents more than 100 labor market indicators for 168 countries and 1,802 surveys. The indicators cover socio-demographics, labor... -
Measuring international skilled migration : a new database controlling for...
Recent data on international migration of skilled workers define skilled migrants by education level without distinguishing whether they acquired their education in the home or... -
Education Attainment and Enrollment around the World
Patterns of educational attainment vary greatly across countries, and across population groups within countries. In some countries, virtually all children complete basic... -
Comparability over time at the country level for international poverty measures
This dataset provides metadata on the comparability of poverty estimates from the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) within countries over time. Strictly comparable poverty... -
What a Waste Global Database
What a Waste is a global project to aggregate data on solid waste management from around the world. This database features the statistics collected through the effort, covering... -
Armenia - Power Plants
Data collected and prepared for a project of the World Bank Group - ELECTRICITY SUPPLY RELIABILITY PROJECT in Armenia. This data is based on a digitized PDF map, and so is... -
Public Credit Registries Survey Dataset
The Survey of Public Credit Registries was conducted by the World Bank in 1999-2000. 77 countries have participated in the survey, of which 40 indicated that they operated a... -
Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures
This survey by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank seeks to collect... -
Efficiency of Public Spending in Education, Health, and Infrastructure
Governments of developing countries typically spend between 20 and 30 percent of gross domestic product. Hence, small changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a... -
WTO Dispute Settlement Database
The dataset covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request for Consultations at the WTO, from 1 January 1995 until October 25, 2006, and for... -
Gender Disaggregated Labor Database
Gender Disaggregated Labor Database (GDLD) is a global micro labor force database based on World Bank household survey collection and other public resources. This database has... -
World Bank's Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to understand poverty beyond just a monetary dimension by including access to education and basic infrastructure along with the... -
Macro Poverty Outlook
The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 146 developing countries. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual... -
International Comparison Program 2017
Results from the International Comparison Program (ICP) 2017 cycle include data for the new reference year 2017, revised data for the previous reference year 2011, and annual... -
Belt and Road Initiative Trade Costs Database
This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and... -
Bureaucrats in Business: The Economics and Politics of Government Ownership
This report examines the economic problems that arise when governments own and operate enterprises that could be managed by the private sector. It draws on a rich database and...