Global Development Finance (World Bank)
Global Development Finance is the World Bank's database on the external debt of developing countries.
GDF is available both online and via CD-rom at the Library issue desk.
Global Development Finance presents data on total external debts of 128 countries in the World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS). The database is updated annually with a narrative account of recent trends and tables summarising capital flows and debt statistics for reporting countries. The database covers more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 128 countries with data from 1970 onwards.
[GDF was formerly published as World Debt Tables , available on paper in the Statistics Collection at the EUI Library.]
The World Bank has issued this caution: "The economic aggregates presented in the tables are prepared for the convenience of users. Although debt indicators can give useful information about developments in debt-servicing capacity, conclusions drawn from them will not be valid unless accompanied by careful economic evaluation. The macroeconomic information provided is from standard sources, but many of them are subject to considerable margins of error, and the usual care must be taken in interpreting the indicators. This is particularly true for the most recent year or two, when figures are preliminary and subject to revision."
Data is online from 1970 to end 2009
The latest CD-rom is available at the EUI Library issue desk: 2010 DJ-FD-GLOBAL
Coverage: from 1970
Frequency: Annual
For further details of the GDF database, please see this World Bank page .
Data is online from 1970 to end 2009
Current EUI members who wish to work with the CD-rom , should present their Library cards at the issue desk. Ref: 2010 DJ-FD-GLOBAL.
Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu