Additional DB's
SEDLAC, Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean database
Run by CEDLAS (Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales), Universidad Nacional de La Plata and The World Bank's LAC Poverty Group (LCSPP) and MECOVI Program, this web site includes statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables in 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries. All statistics are computed from microdata of the main household surveys in these countries obtained from the household surveys databank of the Program for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI), a joint initiative of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Statistics are updated periodically.
The goal of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) is to meet the needs of those engaged in broadly cross-national research by maximizing the comparability of income inequality data while maintaining the widest possible coverage across countries and over time. It standardizes the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database while minimizing reliance on problematic assumptions by using as much information as possible from proximate years within the same country; the data collected by the Luxembourg Income Study is employed as the standard. The SWIID currently incorporates comparable Gini indices of gross and net income inequality for 153 countries for as many years as possible from 1960 to the present as well as estimates of uncertainty in these statistics.
University of Texas Inequality Project, UTIP database
UTIP is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world.
They produce data sets on pay inequality at the global level, at the national level including for Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, China, India, and Russia, and at the regional level for Europe. They have also used pay inequality as an instrument to estimate measures of household income inequality, for a large panel of countries from 1963 through 1999. This new global data set has nearly 3,200 country-year observations.
INFOCYT, la Red de Información C&T para América Latina y el Caribe
Political Database of the Americas—Georgetown University in collaboration with the Organization of American States.
The PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region. With more than 1,500 pages of information, the PDBA is one of the most preferred sources of political information on the Internet reaching more than 450,000 users per month.
The International Poverty Centre is a joint project between UNDP and the Brazilian Government’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) to promote South-South Cooperation with a focus on applied poverty research. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-based policy recommendations on how to reduce them. IPC is directly linked to the Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy in New York.
El Centro Internacional de la Pobreza es un proyecto conjunto entre el PNUD y el Gobierno Brasileño -representado por su Instituto de Investigación Económica Aplicada (IPEA) - para promover la Cooperación Sur-Sur con un enfoque en la investigación aplicada y capacitación sobre pobreza. El CIP se especializa en el análisis de la pobreza y la desigualdad, la investigación de políticas y las recomendaciones sobre la forma de reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad. El CIP está directamente relacionado con el Grupo de Pobreza de la Oficina para Políticas de Desarrollo del PNUD Nueva York.
O CIP é um projeto conjunto do PNUD e do Governo Brasileiro – representado através de seu Centro de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA) – para promover Cooperação Sul-Sul com enfoque na investigação aplicada e capacitação em temas de pobreza. O CIP é especializado na análise da pobreza e da desigualdade e na recomendação de políticas para reduzi-las. O CIP é diretamente ligado ao Grupo de Pobreza do Escritório de Políticas para o Desenvolvimento do PNUD em Nova Iorque.
Run by CEDLAS (Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales), Universidad Nacional de La Plata and The World Bank's LAC Poverty Group (LCSPP) and MECOVI Program, this web site includes statistics on poverty and other distributional and social variables in 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries. All statistics are computed from microdata of the main household surveys in these countries obtained from the household surveys databank of the Program for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI), a joint initiative of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Statistics are updated periodically.
The goal of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) is to meet the needs of those engaged in broadly cross-national research by maximizing the comparability of income inequality data while maintaining the widest possible coverage across countries and over time. It standardizes the United Nations University’s World Income Inequality Database while minimizing reliance on problematic assumptions by using as much information as possible from proximate years within the same country; the data collected by the Luxembourg Income Study is employed as the standard. The SWIID currently incorporates comparable Gini indices of gross and net income inequality for 153 countries for as many years as possible from 1960 to the present as well as estimates of uncertainty in these statistics.
University of Texas Inequality Project, UTIP database
UTIP is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world.
They produce data sets on pay inequality at the global level, at the national level including for Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, China, India, and Russia, and at the regional level for Europe. They have also used pay inequality as an instrument to estimate measures of household income inequality, for a large panel of countries from 1963 through 1999. This new global data set has nearly 3,200 country-year observations.
INFOCYT, la Red de Información C&T para América Latina y el Caribe
Political Database of the Americas—Georgetown University in collaboration with the Organization of American States.
The PDBA offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region. With more than 1,500 pages of information, the PDBA is one of the most preferred sources of political information on the Internet reaching more than 450,000 users per month.
The International Poverty Centre is a joint project between UNDP and the Brazilian Government’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) to promote South-South Cooperation with a focus on applied poverty research. It specializes in analyzing poverty and inequality and offering research-based policy recommendations on how to reduce them. IPC is directly linked to the Poverty Group of the Bureau for Development Policy in New York.
El Centro Internacional de la Pobreza es un proyecto conjunto entre el PNUD y el Gobierno Brasileño -representado por su Instituto de Investigación Económica Aplicada (IPEA) - para promover la Cooperación Sur-Sur con un enfoque en la investigación aplicada y capacitación sobre pobreza. El CIP se especializa en el análisis de la pobreza y la desigualdad, la investigación de políticas y las recomendaciones sobre la forma de reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad. El CIP está directamente relacionado con el Grupo de Pobreza de la Oficina para Políticas de Desarrollo del PNUD Nueva York.
O CIP é um projeto conjunto do PNUD e do Governo Brasileiro – representado através de seu Centro de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA) – para promover Cooperação Sul-Sul com enfoque na investigação aplicada e capacitação em temas de pobreza. O CIP é especializado na análise da pobreza e da desigualdade e na recomendação de políticas para reduzi-las. O CIP é diretamente ligado ao Grupo de Pobreza do Escritório de Políticas para o Desenvolvimento do PNUD em Nova Iorque.