Branko
Thanks very much for these suggestions. They look very interesting. I have a
question about availability of these data sets for research use. I'm not clear on
what exactly is the WorldBank policy on use of data sets that can be downloaded from
the worldbank web sites?
For example, on the LSMS site, the web site lists which data can be used without
further permission, which needs permission. But on the database of political
institutions, there is no indications of conditions of use. The world bank terms and
conditions page does say
"The World Bank is pleased to allow Users to visit the Site and download and copy
the information, documents and materials (collectively, "Materials") from the Site
for User's personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell, redistribute
or create derivative works therefrom,"
Does that mean that any use of WorldBank data for pubication requires some
permission? Sorry if this has been asked and answered before. I'm not sure what the
usual terms are, if datasets are available on web sites.
thanks
gene shackman
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> Dear Gene,
>
> Your Website is indeed quite interesting and fairly comprehensive.
>
> I would like to suggest three data bases from the World Bank which may be
> worth including:
>
> 1. Fractile (decide etc) data from Household Surveys for more than 100
> countries in benchmark years 1988 and 1993 (and 1998 is forthcoming). The link
> is http://www.worldbank.org/research/inequality/data.htm.
>
> 2. Macro level data from 40+ Household surveys from Living Standards
> Monitoring Project (LSMS) of the World Bank. The link is
> http://www.worldbank.org/lsms/.
>
> 3. Database of Political Institutions: about 100 political variables from
> 1975 to 2000 for almost all the countries in the world. It is available at
> http://www.worldbank.org/research/bios/pkeefer.htm.
>
> The first two data sets are inequality (or distributional) data. The third
> is political.
>
> And finally one more suggestion re. the organization of your Website. It
> _may_ be useful to distinguish data which deal with distributions or inequality
> (like education inequality or income distribution) from the data that deal with
> mean values (like GDP per capita).
>
> Best regards,
> Branko Milanovic
>
> Hi all
>
> We've been developing this web site
>
> Social, political and economic change
> http://gsociology.icaap.org
>
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> thanks
>
> gene shackman
> sociologist
> Albany NY
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