Re: st: New version of WBOPENDATA - World Bank Open Databases

[Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com>]

Thanks Azevedo,

You simplied my job a lot.

Best,

Anees

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:02 PM, JP Azevedo <jp.statalist@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Kit Baum,
>
> A new version of wbopendata is available for download.
>
> ssc install wbopendata
>
> The main features of this new release are:
>
> (1) Updated list of indicators, with more than 5,200 series of yearly
> or quarterly indicators drawing from a range of themes and topics
>
> (2) Meta data information of the indicator is now available on the
> Stata screen(default option)
>
> (3) Users can select indicators and countries at the same time.
>
> wbopendata draws from the main World Bank collections of development
> indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.
> It presents the most current and accurate global development data
> available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
>
> The access to this databases is made possible by the World Bank's Open
> Data Initiative which provide open full access to  World Bank
> databases.
>
> Thanks from comments and suggestions, some additional bugs identified
> in the previous version were also fixed.
>
> Best,
>
> JP
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
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