- Transparency International: Latest News, Research, Data and Reports
- ACRN: Anti-corruption research network. Exceptional resources and contacts
- Internet Center for Corruption Research: Latest News, Events and Research
- UN Procurement Capacity Development Center: Reports on initiatives and guidelines for regional and coutnry specific methods to limit public procurements
- WB AntiCorruption: Useful resources on the field of anticorruption (focused on the public sector)
- WB Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption
- WB Governance and Anticorruption
- Harvard Ethics Center: A number of research projects coordinated by Prof. Edmond Safra
- Justice Harvard: A legal and philosophical approach to corrupt practices
- Governance Assesment Portal: Exceptional Website full of resources, data and research worth a read
- Revenue Watch: Datasets on Tranparency of the mineral, oil and gas producing countries
20 September 2011
Research on Corruption
I offer some links that can be useful on corruption related research:
19 September 2011
Other Countries (Non EU-US-Canada)
Other Countries:
- Kenya Open Data: The first African State that launches an independent statistical portal
- All China Data Center
- New Zealand
- New Zealand Open Catalogue
- Australia
- Ireland
- Brazil
- Algeria Office National de Statistiques
- Argentina National Institute of Statistics and Censuses
- Australia Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Bolivia National Institute of Statistics (INE)
- Brazil Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
- Chile National Institute of Statistics (INE)
- China State Statistical Bureau (In Chinese)
- Colombia National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE)
- Dominican Republic National Statistics Office
- Ecuador National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC)
- Greenland Statistics Greenland
- Guatemala National Institute of Statistics (INE)
- Hong Kong: Census and Statistics Department
- India Registrar General
- Indonesia Central Bureau of Statistics
- Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
- Japan Japanese Statistics Bureau
- Jordan Department of Statistics
- Korea National Statistical Office
- Lebanon Central Administration for Statistics
- Macau Census and Statistics Department
- Malaysia Department of Statistics
- Mexico National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics
- Morocco Directorate of Statistics
- New Zealand Statistics New Zealand
- Oman Ministry of National Economy
- Palestine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- Peru National Institute of Statistics and Informatics
- Philippines National Statistical Office
- Singapore Department of Statistics
- South Africa Central Statistical Service
- Sri Lanka Department of Census and Statistics
- Taiwan Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics
- Thailand National Statistical Office
- Uruguay Statistical Department
8 September 2011
Data for Greece only
Thanks to a recent paper that I had to write on Greece I managed to collect a broad but very useful selection on public agencies that publish statistics related to the Greek social, economic and political environment.
Greek Data suffer usually from bias and sometimes especially for the years 2004-2007 their validity has been questioned by Eurostat. Hence a user of the statistics should be aware of potential problems that might be caused due to the non-scientific collection of the data from the various statistical bodies in Greece.
Having said that I will offer a list of the useful agencies that i have retrieved, stating the type of statistics each body publishes.
- Ministry of Finance: Financial Data on Public Debt, Budget, Public enterprises (archive from 2001)
- Greek Statistical Agency: Digitalised Data
- Greek Statistical Agency: Digital Library (Non digitalised data. Scanned Original Documents containing monthly statistical reports since 1929)
- Bank of Greece: Although the site is ugly, useful monetary data can be found
- National Library: A must for anyone interested in qualitative data (enormous newspapers archive etc)
- National Bank of Greece: An exceptional database of historical reports (budgets, statistics and newspapers from 1825 until 1940)
- Labrakis Press: Collection of financial datasets from 2000
- E-demography: Demographic data
- General Secretary of Computer Systems: Accounting and Financial datasets (since 2000)
- Diavgeia (Transparency): Reports of transactions of ministries and public institutions.
- GeoData.Gov.Gr (Open Data Protocol in Greece)
- National Printing House (Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο): Digital documents of the government's activity. Search for laws, established companies e.t.c.
- Greek Banks' Association
- National Documentation Center: PhD Theses Archive
- Public Issue: Monthly Electoral Surveys
- VPRC
- SEDEA: Association of Greek Market and Opinion Research Companies
- OAED: Detailed data on Unemployment and Labour Force
3 September 2011
The effects of the IMF era on Greece - by Manos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi
Greek financial crisis has alarming effect on poverty levels
21 August 2011
New research from members of ISER’s EUROMOD project shows that levels of poverty among the Greek population have risen alarmingly since the financial crisis hit last year. The research concludes that policies to reduce Greece’s deficit need to be redesigned and stresses the importance of fighting tax evasion.
The research by Manos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi from the Athens University of Economics and Businessshows that as a result of the austerity measures and the wider recession in Greece, relative poverty (as measured conventionally, by reference to a poverty threshold of 60% of median incomes) has increased from 20.1% in 2009 to 20.9% to 2010. Extreme poverty (measured by reference to a threshold of 40% of median incomes) has followed a similar pattern, rising from 7.3% to 8.0%.
The researchers say that while these figures may appear unimpressive, poverty was shown to have risen to 25.5% if anchored in pre-crisis terms (measured by reference to a threshold of 60% of median incomes in 2009, adjusted for inflation). They argue that the latter indicator is better suited to periods of rapid change in living standards, better approximating the experience of impoverishment when nominal incomes fall and prices rise (as was the case in Greece in 2010 relative to 2009).
2 September 2011
Community Data
Local and Regional Data from England and Scotland:
- Neighborhood Statistics: Just select the area of interest (by name or postcode) and all the relevant data will appear (England)
- Scottish Neighborhood Statistics: Similar to its English broth but with Scottish data
1 September 2011
Iceland has won - by Krugman
September 1, 2011, 9:01 AM
Iceland is no longer under an IMF program; here’s the IMF report (pdf) pronouncing the adjustment program successful. Indeed. Iceland still has high unemployment and is a long way from a full recovery; but it’s no longer in crisis, it has regained access to international capital markets, and has done all that with its society intact.
And it has done all that with very heterodox policies — debt repudiation, capital controls, and currency depreciation. It was as close as you can get to the polar opposite of the gold standard. And it has worked.
The original article on: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/iceland-exits/
Iceland Exits
Iceland is no longer under an IMF program; here’s the IMF report (pdf) pronouncing the adjustment program successful. Indeed. Iceland still has high unemployment and is a long way from a full recovery; but it’s no longer in crisis, it has regained access to international capital markets, and has done all that with its society intact.
And it has done all that with very heterodox policies — debt repudiation, capital controls, and currency depreciation. It was as close as you can get to the polar opposite of the gold standard. And it has worked.
The original article on: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/iceland-exits/
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