Various important growth data sets are available on the Internet. Good places to look for data include the homepages of specific researchers and especially the World Bank Macroeconomics and Growth Research pages.
- Penn World Table (‘Summers-Heston data’)
- Barro-Lee (1993) growth data set
- Barro-Lee (2000) education data set
- Political instability and growth data set
- Sachs and Warner data sets
- Social Indicators of Development
- Trends in Developing Economies
- World Bank Growth Research (Many useful data sets available)
- World Bank World Tables
Useful links
- Center for International Development Some important data sets
- Development Research Institute Database at NYU
- Economic, social and political data by Richard Tucker
- Goettingen University corruption rankings
- Groningen Growth and Development Centre
Useful data on GDP, population, employment and working hours - OECD data
- Social change
Long term changes in social, economic and political systems - Statistical Resources on the Web at the University of Michigan
- WebEc guide to data sets