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Useful Computing and Data Links
Professional Links

 

  • BibDesk – For managing bibliography in LaTeX for academics, researchers and policy practitioners

  • R Programming – For statistical computing and data analysis using R programming for economists, political scientists, researchers and policy practitioners

  • Doug’s Apple Scripts – For making iTunes life easier for Mac users

  • AdePT – Provides policy makers, academics and researchers with practical guidelines, theoretical foundation and software tools for applied analysis in the understanding of the effectiveness of the social transfers, labour market conditions and understanding the effects of exogenous shocks on income distribution

  • PI+ – For generating realistic year-by-year estimates of the total regional effects of any specific policy initiative

  • Asian Development Bank (ADB) Data Library – For publicly available database across 67 member countries in a number of sectors

  • PolicyMaker 4 – Provides guidance to  design, analyze, understand and create effective political strategies to support better decision making for academics, researchers and policy practitioners

  • Polity Data Platform – Offers global trends on governance, regime changes and provides annual assessments of regime authority characteristics

  • Geographical Research on War Unified Platform (GROWup) Data Library – Provides access to executive government power and GDP data access by area around the world from 1946-2017

  • Oxford Economics Global Cities Database – For demographic, economic, labor market, unemployment and household income analysis on nearly 7000 world cities

  • World  Inequality Database – For open source access on the distribution of income and wealth estimates for developed, middle- and low-income countries​

  • International Financial Statistics –  Provides monetary statistics, interest rates, GDP, government finance, international liquidity and prices, production, consumer price index, labor, national accounts and population data covering 194 countries and areas worldwide

  • Dun and Bradstreet – Offers comprehensive credit data from over 265 million public and private firms globally

  • Running Randomized Evaluations: A Practical Guide – Provides tutorials, case studies, data and the know-how to run randomized controlled trials for economists and policy practitioners

  • IRIS Macro Economic Modeling Toolbox – Open source Matlab toolbox for macroeconomic modeling and analysis for economists and central bankers

  • Academics/Economists Open Source Database – Few useful resources relevant to open source data and peer-reviewed publications in the field of development economics and public economics

 

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  • World Bank – Provides vital information on a range of sectors from low-income and middle-income countries  

  • Asian Development Bank – For news related to inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth and regional

       integration in Asia and the Pacific

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