Introduction

This page provides information on other macroeconomic data outside Growth and development data. These include, but not limited to, inflation, population, employment rate, export, import, and government debts. 

Databases

Eikon with Datastream    

Available at the City Tower Library, level 2.
There are other VU Library databases that may provide you with the information you require. For example:

Orbis (Bureau van Dijk) will provide you with detailed time series company information.

Business Source Complete will provide you with company information, company profiles, industry reports, financial data, country reports, market research reports, investment research reports and SWOT analysis.

Business Market Research Collection This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.

Web-based resources

World Development Indicators

Data in the World Development Indicators (WDI) database mainly are classified into the following topics: 

• Agriculture & Rural Development
• Aid Effectiveness
• Climate Change
• Economy & Growth
• Education
• Energy & Mining
• Environment
• External Debt
• Financial Sector
• Gender
• Health
• Infrastructure
• Poverty
• Private Sector
• Public Sector
• Science & Technology
• Social Development
• Social Protection and Labour
• Trade
• Urban Development

For Stata users, life will be easier if you utilise the two main commands to download WDI data into a Stata file:

• wbopendata (please see Accesing World Bank Open Data in Stata) 
• wdireshape (please see Jeanty. 2010. Using the world development indicators database for statistical analysis in Stata. The Stata Journal, Vol. 10, Number 1, pp. 30-45.)

International Financial Statistics

International Financial Statistics (IFS) provides various databases such as

• Economic indicators
  •   exchange rates, interest rates, reserves, prices and production, trade of goods
• World consumer prices
• World exports
• World foreign exchanges
• World gold
• World imports
• World reserve position
• World SDR holdings