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This new database constitutes a curated library of enabling laws, regulations, and guidelines from nearly 200 countries—all in a searchable and easy-to-use format. This database sheds important light on some of the causes of the global digital divide. Some countries have strong enabling regulations for fintech and digital financial services.

Given the range of potential benefits, the Global Findex Database 2021 offers rare positive news on growth in both account ownership and use of financial services during a turbulent financial year. This latest edition of the Global Findex Database was collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, updating financial inclusion indicators that were previously captured in 2011, 2014, and 2017.

Broad benefits for all users include but are not limited to: One-stop shop. Users looking for data can search on the DDH and find information on several different catalogs, without having to search each catalog separately—or even be aware that those catalogs exist. Broader exposure. The DDH harvests the metadata and exposes it to a larger ...

Someone who just has one minute and really knows what they’re looking for, to someone who wants to do research and explore the database, or an application developer who wants to link to the database directly” - Shaida Badiee, Director Development Data Group, World Bank. data.worldbank.org opens World Bank databases to all users and includes World Development Indicators (WDI) -- one of the world’s most reliable and comprehensive databases on developing economies--, Doing Business, and ...

The database is accessible at this link and there are several dashboards that illustrate the visualization of the data (along with other development data), including the World Bank’s Development Data Hub, Geospatial Platform and Spatial Agent App. Since context matters, the CO2 data can be integrated with other climate and development data using a wide range of analytical/visualization tools to support diverse applications.

This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 countries and regions over 1965-2015. The globally comparable achievement outcomes were constructed by linking standardized, psychometrically-robust international and regional achievement tests.

An explosion of data. Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years. Data travel thousands of kilometers along this seamless global data infrastructure supply chain at breathtaking speeds of 200,000 kilometers per second—meaning that digital data can, in principle, circle the globe five times within a second. This explosion of data creates an ever-growing demand for data infrastructure.

AWS is proud to make the Light Every Night data available through our Registry of Open Data on AWS. Making global nighttime imagery more widely accessible will allow researchers to process data in-place on the cloud, enabling new large-scale, long-term analyses that can help inform insights into historical trends like population change, economic development, and energy consumption.

This database aims to be a holistic source of information on abuse of dominance, anticompetitive agreements, and merger cases involving digital platforms, which have been finalized by antitrust authorities worldwide.