{"id":5237,"date":"2015-01-04T22:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T03:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2015-01-04T23:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T04:14:39","slug":"recent-data-from-imf-databases-now-available-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/2015\/01\/04\/recent-data-from-imf-databases-now-available-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Data from IMF Databases Now Available for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund has expanded the data it makes available for free online. In addition to its widely used and valuable but rather basic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/ns\/cs.aspx?id=28\"><strong>World Economic Outlook<\/strong><\/a> database, it has now added material from its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elibrary-data.imf.org\/\">eLibrary<\/a><\/strong>, which comprises a huge amount of additional data from International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, and Trade and Investment. Between the IMF eLibrary and the Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/\"><strong>FRED<\/strong><\/a> database, it is now possible to find easily for free what a few years ago would have been difficult, costly, \u00a0or impossible to find.<\/p>\n<p>In the IMF eLibrary, the default time period seems to be approximately the last decade for annual data, but you can go far back by changing the start date to as early as 1900, though in my experience with IMF databases, 1948 has generally been the first year for data availability. The site requires free registration to make greatest use of its capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund has expanded the data it makes available for free online. In addition to its widely used and valuable but rather basic World Economic Outlook database, it has now added material from its eLibrary, which comprises a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/2015\/01\/04\/recent-data-from-imf-databases-now-available-for-free\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}