The World Bank now offers a variety of data related to growth research, including data used in a number of well known published articles. The Penn World Tables have their origins in the well known series of books by Irving Kravis, Alan Heston, and Robert Summers at the University of Pennsylvania. For other economic data sources , BLS Data , Commerce Department Data , Federal Reserve Board Home Page , Federal Reserve Bank Home Pages , Federal Reserve Board Data , Mexican Data , more Mexican data , Other Non-U.S. Data , Economics Data Gophers , and Financial Market Data . The Citibase database is unfortunately far from free. For a general source of links to data at all US government databases, see the GovBot Database .
Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.
The LatinFocus web page links to data and analysis for economics and finance professionals.