Research resources
Data & Programs
Data sources and programming resources for economic research.
Firm-level data
World Bank Enterprise Surveys
My doctoral research used Enterprise Surveys data to examine financial access, ICT adoption and the export performance of manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Access surveys and documentation (opens in a new tab)Country-level data
World Development Indicators
World Bank indicators covering economic growth, manufacturing, trade and development, with downloadable data and information about each measure.
Programming documentation
Accessing World Bank data in code
The World Bank’s Indicators API documentation explains how to request data by country, indicator and year. It provides a starting point for building repeatable data-download workflows in statistical software.
Read the official API documentation (opens in a new tab)