Dataset description and subject
overview
The World Bank's Global Development Finance database contains more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for over 130 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections. These data run from 1970- 2013 where available.
The main topics in the GDF are as follows:
- Total debt stocks
- Total debt flows
- Stock-flow reconciliation
- Resource flows
- Long-term debt
- Debt outstanding and disbursed
- Disbursements
- Principal repayments
- Net flows
- Interest payments
- Net transfers on debt
- Debt service
- Undisbursed debt
- Restructurings
- Debt ratios
- Macroeconomic aggregates
- Currency composition of long-term debt
- Average terms of new commitments
User Documentation
The World Bank Group produces a print version of Global Development Finance 2006.
Published annually by the World Bank, the Global Development Finance report combines a diagnosis of recent trends and prospects for capital flows to developing countries with an analysis of important policy issues:
The World Bank provides:
The Global Development Finance database hosted by ESDS International are delivered via Beyond 20/20 WDS
(www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/software.asp)
Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software to read documents in pdf format. It can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe website.
Accessing the Global Development Finance
To access the ESDS International macro-economic datasets you must be a user from a UK higher or further education institution. We cannot provide data to users outside of this community due to the data re-distribution license agreements we have with our data providers. If you are a member of a UK higher or further education institution access to the macro-economic datasets is provided free of charge.
Access to data requires ESDS registration and uses the federated access management authentication system. Registration is a simple online process - go to the How to Register web page at www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/access.asp to begin the process.
Once you have registered with ESDS and attempt to access one of the macro-economic datasets, you will automatically be prompted to agree to additional dataset specific conditions if they apply.
Countries in the Global Development Finance
A list of the countries presented in the Global Development Finance Database is provided at publications.worldbank.org/GDF/countries
Periodicity and Time Range
The Global Development Finance database contains annual time series data from 1970 - 2013 where available. At ESDS International the database is updated annually. See the latest data update page for further information.
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