Global Development Finance
Encyclopedia
The World Bank’s Global Development Finance, External Debt of Developing Countries (GDF) is the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries on a loan-by-loan basis. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-and middle-income countries in both electronic and print formats. Data are shown for 128 individual countries that report to the World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS). GDF includes over 200 time series indicators from 1970 to 2009, for most reporting countries.
The online database is updated twice a year, once in January and another in April, coinciding with the World Development Indicators
database update. The GDF publication is released once a year in the month of January.
The Economic and Social Data Service
(ESDS) International provides the macro-economic datasets free of charge for members of UK higher and further education institutions. In order to access the data, users have to be registered which can be done here.
Methodology and scope
GDF focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, scheduled debt service projections, and other major financial indicators for developing countries.The online database is updated twice a year, once in January and another in April, coinciding with the World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators
The World Development Indicators is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. This...
database update. The GDF publication is released once a year in the month of January.
Accessing the data
The World Bank’s Open Data site provides access to the GDF database free of charge to all users. A selection of GDF data is featured at data.worldbank.org. Users can browse the data by Country, Indicators, Topics, and Data Catalog. GDF is listed the in the catalog and can be accessed directly via dataBank.The Economic and Social Data Service
Economic and Social Data Service
The Economic and Social Data Service is a national data archiving and dissemination service that was founded in January 2003. It is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Joint Information Systems Committee ....
(ESDS) International provides the macro-economic datasets free of charge for members of UK higher and further education institutions. In order to access the data, users have to be registered which can be done here.
External links
- World Bank, Global Development Finance, latest edition, retrieved March 6, 2011
- World Bank Open Data, retrieved March 6, 2011
- About ESDS International, retrieved September 14, 2009
See also
- The World Bank
- World Development IndicatorsWorld Development IndicatorsThe World Development Indicators is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. This...
- Africa Development IndicatorsAfrica Development IndicatorsThe World Bank Africa Development Indicators is a compilation of data, assembled by the World Bank, representing over 1,400 indicators of development in Sub-Saharan Africa.-Methodolgy and scope:...
- ESDS InternationalESDS InternationalESDS International is a JISC/ESRC funded service which provides the UK academic community with free online access to the major databanks produced by international governmental organisations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the United Nations...