Economics and Finance Research Guide (IMF): Development & Inequality

Financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing and advanced economies.

The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive database on financial inclusion that consistently measures people’s use of financial services across countries and over time.

The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) helps data users find historical and current information related to key development indicators such as poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. In addition, PIP can be used for following trends and monitoring progress towards development targets. The platform reports national, regional, and global estimates.

Offers a wide variety of macroeconomic and social sector data. Available in EcOS and on the World Bank website. Open to all IMF staff.

Statistics from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Open to all IMF staff.

Comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of foreign aid and other resource flows from donor countries to recipient countries. It also provides comparative data on gender equality. Open to all IMF staff.

From the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development. Open to all IMF staff.

Information for over 180 countries on income inequalities at both cross-country and time series levels over the period 1950-2018. Open to all IMF staff.