One of the difficulties that I face in UMS is when asking students to do research-oriented project paper. The main obstacle is data accessibility, because our library doesn’t subscribe to key economic and financial databases. Luckily, the courses that I taught at the moment are quantitative-based or in the area of economics. The free database that I recommended to my students is the one provided by World Bank, in particularly World Development Indicators (click here).
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Dataset for Financial Development
In my earlier posting, I recommended the website of Yongfu Huang which contains excellent resources for research on financial development (click here). Currently, my undergraduate students are doing their project paper, and some of them work on topics related to financial development. For those who are looking for data on financial development, this is the permanent link at World Bank (click here). This database includes a range of indicators that measure the size, activity, and efficiency of financial intermediaries and markets. As of this post, the database has been updated through 2010.