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United Nations Data: Select your country of interest in the box, and see everything they have. http://data.un.org/Default.aspx
World Bank: Most data are available through website, but some you might need to register. http://data.worldbank.org/ or http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/exporter-dynamics-database/ (Check Exporter Dynamics Database Version 2.0);
World Bank Doing Business Data: Great for those more interested in business and multinationals, also useful for decoupling institutions http://www.doingbusiness.org/data
International Monetary Fund Data: They also have rich databases including the International Financial Statistics (IFS). You will need to register. http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD): Has a large list of potential data sources. http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/dthomas/dev_data/index.html
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): In particular, check out the “Resources” and “Countries” tabs. http://www.ifpri.org/
JPal Dataverse: has many datasets and even code for several of their affiliated professors’ papers. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/jpal
Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID) Datasets http://www.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/ciddata.html
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Has, among others, education (and PISA microdata) and foreign aid statistics https://www.oecd-library.org/education/education-at-a-glance-2018_eag-2018-en http://www.oecd.org/pisa/data or http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/
International Labor Organization: Has data on labor market flexibility, unemployment, and other labor statistics https://www.ilo.org/global/statistics-and-databases/lang--en/index.htm
Peter Schott Webpage: Has USA exports data http://faculty.som.yale.edu/peterschott/sub_international.htm
World Integrated Trade Solutions (WITS). Has data on exports, imports, tariffs and NTM. Requires registration. https://wits.worldbank.org
Penn World Tables http://cid.econ.ucdavis.edu/pwt.html
Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group: Some interesting US & Canada longitudinal datasets, mostly on higher education https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/resources/data-guide
Opportunity Insights: Group led by Prof. Chetty, has datasets that allow you to analyze social mobility and a variety of other outcomes from life expectancy to patent rates by neighborhood, college, parental income level, and racial background. US only. https://opportunityinsights.org/data/
Google Dataset Search: It’s worth searching whate you want to work with to see the results that The Oracle recommends https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch
PORDATA: Has statistics about municipalities, Portugal and Europe https://www.pordata.pt
Banco de Portugal https://www.bportugal.pt/EstatisticasWeb/(S(qlogwsexf0cg0v45b0zrq555))/Default.aspx
Instituto Nacional de Estatística https://www.ine.pt
Agência de Gestão da Tesouraria e da Divida Publica – Portugal (IGPC) https://www.igcp.pt/en/1-4-399/statistics/
UCP Library’s Databases and Periodicals
Information services and Databases at CATOLICA-LISBON
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