good point jayne! thanks for adding your opinion. i hadn't thought too
much about the fact that they were UNdeveloped. robin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Golden)
Subject: ** World Bank Datasets On-Line! ** (fwd)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 May 95 15:36:12 PDT
Hi, thought this might be of interest to some of you interested in
development issues.
-michael
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> All,
>
> Dr. Robert Worrest, a colleague of mine here at CIESIN suggested I post
> the attached message to your discussion list.
>
> With best regards,
> Tom Parris
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The following message has been cross-posted to multiple discussion lists
> and news groups. Our apologies in advance to those readers who have seen
> it more than once. Feel free to cross-post this information to RELEVANT
> lists we may have missed.
>
> The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
> (CIESIN) and the World Bank are pleased to announce experimental Internet
> access to two major World Bank datasets:
>
> - Social Indicators of Development, 1994
> (http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/sid-home.html), and
>
> - Trends in Developing Economies, 1994
> (http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html).
>
> A positive response to this experiment from an active user community may
> result in providing similar (or enhanced) Internet access to additional
> World Bank datasets.
>
> In each case, any user with a forms-capable World Wide Web browser (e.g.,
> IBM Web View, Mosaic, Netscape, Prodigy) can directly query the contents
> of these two important World Bank datasets. These datasets are also
> searchable using CIESIN's Gateway -- a distributed search and retrieval
> tool enabling access to a large collection of information about human
> interactions in the environment. For more information on the Gateway, see
> http://www.ciesin.org/gateway/gw-home.html .
>
> "Social Indicators of Development" contains the World Bank's most detailed
> data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the
> social effects of economic development. Data are presented for more than
> 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate.
> Emphasis in this publication is on country-by-country review. Up to 94
> indicators are reported for each country including: size, growth, and
> structure of population; determinants of population growth (including
> data on fertility and infant mortality); labor force; education and
> illiteracy; natural resources; income and poverty; expenditure on food,
> housing, fuel and power, transport and communication; and investment in
> medical care and education. Each of these indicators is broken into
> several subcategories. Footnotes associated with the printed data are
> preserved in the hypertext version so that users will be fully aware of
> significant nuances associated with particular indicators and countries.
>
> "Trends in Developing Economies" (TIDE) provides brief reports on most of
> the World Bank's borrowing countries. This compendium of individual
> country economic trends complements the World Bank's World Development
> Report, which looks at major global and regional economic trends and their
> implications for the future prospects of the developing economies. TIDE
> digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to
> explain recent developments for the benefits of readers who are familiar
> with macroeconomics but not, perhaps, with every country under review.
>
> For further information contact:
>
> CIESIN User Services telephone: +517-797-2727
> 2250 Pierce Road facsimile: +517-797-2622
> University Center, MI 48710 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> United States of America URL: http://www.ciesin.org
>
> The work described in this message was generously supported by the (U.S.)
> National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under grant NAGW-2901.
>
>
>
>
--
Michael Golden
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Department of Biology
Grossmont College
8800 Grossmont College Drive
El Cajon, CA 92020
619-465-1700 x332
