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Mainstream data sources on poverty and development

Gapminder Presents graphical representations of data related to poverty over time.
Atlas of Economic Complexity Provides trade visualizations, both imports and exports in an effort to display areas of economic growth
CIA World Factbook
The FAO Hunger Map This map allows you to explore food insecurity by nation-state level
Human Development Index Data Explorer Ranks countries based on life expectancy, literacy, and treatment of people. The data explorer opens into a Google page that allows manipulation and visualization
IMF Commodity Prices Multiple databases related to commodities. Commodity data portal: look up a commodity and see its price trend over 1990-2016; commodity terms of trade: look up by country to see terms of trade, 1960-2019
International Energy Agency Atlas Data on how each country produces and consumes energy.
Our World in Data Provides another set of data on issues affecting development around the world
UNDP Human Development Index Provides a report and a view of how development projects are progressing in developing nations
UNDP Human Development Reports- Country Reports Country reports on the development in several countries
UN Millennium Goals, 2005-2015
UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2016-
The World Bank- Visualize Equality Provides a historical view of inequality through visualizations and has some current reports
WorldBank World Development Indicators Provides development data from the World Bank that is easy to manipulate and utilize

Critical NGO data sources on poverty, wealth, power and development

International Food Policy Research Institute Global Hunger Index One of the tools listed above that gives a global understanding of how hunger is being treated throughout the world
International Food Policy Research Institute Data A collection of a variety of visualizations that will assist you in exploring world hunger
Corporate Research Project's "Dirt Diggers Digest Guide to Strategic Corporate Research
CorpWatch Provides articles, reports and data on violations by multinational corporations to activists, media, the general public and policy makers.
Environmental Justice Atlas Documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues.
Internet Guide to Power Structure Research: Corporations Links to multiple data sources on corporations, from Professor Burris's "Who Rules?" website.
Land Matrix Database of international land transactions with useful visualization tools.
Oxfam Policy and Research
Oxfam report: "An Economy for the 99%"
Oxfam report: "Public good or private wealth?"
Who Rules America? Professor Domhall (of UC Santa Cruz)'s site about who wields power, and how, in the United States.
Credit Suisse (Bank) Global Wealth Report