I assume that you are seeking data which is available without
charge. That is the snag. Also I assume that you want more than
just coverage of EU countries, since Eurostat has a lot of
macroeconomic data for EU countries.
Both the World Bank (
worldbank.org) and the IMF (
imf.org) maintain
quite large databases that cover macroeconomic data for 150+
countries going back to 1960 or thereabouts. Probably, the primary
one for macroeconomic and monetary data is International Financial
Statistics from the IMF. However, they ask for payment for full
access to their databases, though the charges are discounted for
academic users and for developing countries. In the recent past
Poland would have qualified as a developing country, but I don't know
the current situation. You could contact the local offices in
Warsaw of the two organisations to see whether they have some local
arrangement.
On a more restricted basis the IMF publishes a dataset linked to its
World Economic Outlook which appears in Spring and Autumn. This goes
back to 1980 for a large collection of countries and contains basic
macro data but not monetary statistics. Other organisations - e.g.
the Asian Development Bank for Asia, etc - publish compilations of
statistics on a regional basis. Similarly, the OECD (
oecd.org) has
a large database on OECD and some other countries, but again it asks
for payment for anything beyond restricted access. Finally, you can
look at what is available from the UN's Statistical Office
(
unstats.un.org). It has reasonable national accounts data - albeit
somewhat out of date - but it does not compile monetary statistics.
Regards
Gordon Hughes
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:49:08 +0200
From: Mariusz Doszy? <madosz(a)wp.pl>
Subject: [Gretl-users] Data...
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Hello everybody...
Maybe some of you know if there is on-line accesible database
containing such panel data for countries as GDP, interest rates,
consumption, investments, money supply and inflation?
I'd be grateful fo any help....
Best wishes,
Mariusz
Poland