This paper introduces four versions of an international bilateral migration stock database for 226 by 226 countries and … evident in the database. For example, immigration to the United States is dominated by Latin America, whereas Western European … immigration draws heavily on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean region. Over one-third of world migration is from …

. First, it presents a new database that offers a detailed assessment of the content of preferential arrangements, examining … the coverage and legal enforceability of provisions. The database covers 279 agreements signed by 189 countries between … 1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade …

the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database, Luxembourg Income Study, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and …

This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of … microfinance institution in the past year. Although half of adults around the world remain unbanked, at least 35 percent of them …

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …