Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
The World Development Report 2019 studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away jobs from people have dominated the discussion over the future of work, but the World Development Report 2019 finds that on balance this appears to be unfounded.
The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The HDI can also be used to question national policy choices, asking how two countries with the same level of GNI per capita can end up with different human development outcomes.
Internet Data Sources for Social Scientists The Cornell Institute for Social & Economic Research. Not all datasets on this site are available to public use, but many are.