Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950518181658.29900t-100000@mail> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 18:17:17 -0400 From: Tom Parris <mailto:tparris@CIESIN.ORG> Subject: ** World Bank Datasets On-Line! ** To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
The following message has been cross-posted to multiple discussion lists and news groups. Our apologies in advance to those readers who have seen it more than once. Feel free to cross-post this information to RELEVANT lists we may have missed.The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) and the World Bank are pleased to announce experimental Internet access to two major World Bank datasets:
- Social Indicators of Development, 1994 (http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/sid-home.html), and
- Trends in Developing Economies, 1994 (http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html).
A positive response to this experiment from an active user community may result in providing similar (or enhanced) Internet access to additional World Bank datasets.
In each case, any user with a forms-capable World Wide Web browser (e.g., IBM Web View, Mosaic, Netscape, Prodigy) can directly query the contents of these two important World Bank datasets. These datasets are also searchable using CIESIN's Gateway -- a distributed search and retrieval tool enabling access to a large collection of information about human interactions in the environment. For more information on the Gateway, see http://www.ciesin.org/gateway/gw-home.html .
"Social Indicators of Development" contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for more than 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate. Emphasis in this publication is on country-by-country review. Up to 94 indicators are reported for each country including: size, growth, and structure of population; determinants of population growth (including data on fertility and infant mortality); labor force; education and illiteracy; natural resources; income and poverty; expenditure on food, housing, fuel and power, transport and communication; and investment in medical care and education. Each of these indicators is broken into several subcategories. Footnotes associated with the printed data are preserved in the hypertext version so that users will be fully aware of significant nuances associated with particular indicators and countries.
"Trends in Developing Economies" (TIDE) provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries. This compendium of individual country economic trends complements the World Bank's World Development Report, which looks at major global and regional economic trends and their implications for the future prospects of the developing economies. TIDE digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain recent developments for the benefits of readers who are familiar with macroeconomics but not, perhaps, with every country under review.
For further information contact:
CIESIN User Services telephone: +517-797-2727 2250 Pierce Road facsimile: +517-797-2622 University Center, MI 48710 email: mailto:ciesin.info@ciesin.org United States of America URL: http://www.ciesin.org
The work described in this message was generously supported by the (U.S.) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under grant NAGW-2901.