Description

The GSRE 1.0 dataset is based on recently released historical documents from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and improves the coverage and accuracy of state budget data for most authoritarian regimes and some democracies since the end of World War II. The GSRE dataset includes 39 unique indicators covering major aspects of state finance for 161 countries between 1946 and 2006. Please consult the GSRE website at https://sites.google.com/a/thomaserichter.de/gsre/ for further changes and updates.

Access

Open / without registration

Time

01/01/1946 - 31/12/2006

Geographical coverage

Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Estonia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Surinam, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Rwanda, Chad, Congo (Kinshasa), Central African Republic, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Republic of South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Tanzania, Uganda, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, African islands and other African areas, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maledives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), East Timor, China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, Far Eastern part of the Russian Federation/Soviet Union, South Pacific Islands, Papua Neu Guinea, Single Micronesian islands