Data Sources

    • A great place to start for international country-level and micro data sets is The World Bank

    • http://www.worldbank.org/

    • OECD data

    • http://www.oecd.org/

    • Inequality

    • World Income Inequality Database (WIID): https://www.wider.unu.edu/project/wiid-world-income-inequality-database

    • Long term changes in social, economic and political systems

    • http://gsociology.icaap.org/

    • Cities

    • Vernon Henderson's page has some useful data: http://www.econ.brown.edu/Faculty/henderson/

    • Corruption

    • Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index: https://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/overview

    • Conflict, Terrorism and War

    • Peace Research Institute of Oslo has collected conflict data: https://www.prio.org/Data/Armed-Conflict/

    • University of Central Florida has collected some info: http://guides.ucf.edu/war/wardata

    • Trade and Tariff data

    • World Trade Organization: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm

    • Commodity Prices

    • Intentional Monetary Fund (also has other data sets) http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/commod/index.aspx

    • Natural Resources (e.g. water wetlands etc.)

    • World Resources Institute: http://www.wri.org/

    • Mineral resources in U.S. and around the world

    • U.S. Geological Survey: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/

    • Energy data for U.S. and around the world

    • U.S. Energy Information Administration: https://www.eia.gov/