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Data and Statistics

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Global Economic Monitor

 Prospects for the Global Economy

Migration and remittances 

Manufactures Unit Value Index 

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Global Economic Monitor (GEM). This website provides daily and monthly commentary on global economic conditions along with direct access to high frequency data that is refreshed daily. The DDP database contains information on industrial production, consumer price indices, exchange rates, national accounts, commodity prices, interest rates, and information on stock markets. Users may query monthly, quarterly and annual data and export the results to Excel files.
 Prospects for the Global Economy (PGE).This website is an interactive publication featuring a forec ast database for all World Bank regions and income groups, including latest macroeconomic data out to 2009; insightful calculators and simulation tools; valuable one-page briefs summarizing countries' external financial position and trade; individual commodity reports and price forecasts; and timely analysis of worldwide economic prospects and risk. The site is available is English, French and Spanish.
 Migration and remittances. Statistics are provided on remittances inflows and outflows, a 2005 survey of Africa diaspora in Belgium, and data from a South-South Migration and Remittances report.
 

MUV Index.This index is generally accepted as a proxy for the price of developing country imports of manufactures in U.S. dollar terms. Bank procurement officers also utilize MUV in assessing prospective cost escalation for imported goods in Bank-financed infrastructure and other operations. DECPG is tasked with producing regular updates of the index, timed to coincide with economic projections accompanying Global Economic Prospects (May) and Global Developments Finance (December).

 Development Data Group statistics.
The data presented here are the most widely-used, official-source development data from the World Bank and other international agencies.
     



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