World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data | HeraldTribune.com
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"For more than a year, the bank has been releasing its prized data sets, currently giving public access to more than 7,000 that were previously available only to some 140,000 subscribers โ mostly governments and researchers, who pay to gain access to it.
Those data sets contain all sorts of information about the developing world, whether workaday economic statistics โ gross domestic product, consumer price inflation and the like โ or arcana like how many women are breast-feeding their children in rural Peru...."