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DATABASE Used by: World Bank

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Abhinav Goel 01

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How Databases Are Used in E-Business

Databases are integral to the success of an e-business. They enable you to store, analyze and manage essential information about your products, your sales and your customers so you can quickly and easily respond to changing market conditions. You can also share information in the database with suppliers and logistics partners to improve the efficiency of your e-business operations.

Product InformationYou can use your e-business database to hold and update information on your products, including detailed product descriptions and specifications, product reference numbers, prices, promotional offers and availability. You also can include details of the supplier for each product that you stock. By updating the information in the database, rather than changing and publishing individual website pages, you can save time and ensure your website always shows visitors the latest information.

Customer InformationThe database should hold information on your customers, including their full names and contact details. For business customers, include the type and size of business and their industry sector. For consumers, add any personal information that would be relevant to their buying potential, such as age range, income, demographic details and interests. In certain countries, data protection legislation applies to personal information that organizations hold on a database, so ensure you comply if you sell in export markets.

TransactionsThe basic customer information is important for administration of your e-business. By recording information on customers’ product searches, information requests and purchases, you can also build a detailed picture of individual customers’ product preferences, purchasing history and future buying potential.

PersonalizationThe detailed customer profiles enable you to make personalized offers to customers based on their preferences. If your website sells sportswear, for example, you could create promotional campaigns targeted at all female customers in your database who play golf and prefer a specific brand. You can also use the database to customize prices for your larger business customers. When a customer selects a product and requests a price, the database returns the price or discount you have set for that company.

Campaign ManagementYou can assess the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns and product offers by analyzing the transaction information in your database and producing reports. Compare sales before and after the campaign to identify the most successful campaigns. By analyzing trends in sales of different products in your portfolio, you can make changes to prices, product mix or stock levels.

Self-ServiceWith the right level of security in place, you can give customers, suppliers and logistics partners access to certain areas of your database. Customers, for example, can check on their order history and delivery status of outstanding orders. By giving suppliers access to stock levels, you can help them to plan their own production schedules more efficiently. Logistics partners can check on current orders so they can plan their delivery schedules.

THE WORLD BANK DATABASE

 1. World Development IndicatorsWorld Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. [Note: Even though Global Development Finance (GDF) is no longer listed in the WDI database name, all external debt and financial flows data continue to be included in WDI. The GDF publication has been renamed International Debt Statistics (IDS), and has its own separate database, as well.]

2. Education Statistics - All IndicatorsThe World Bank EdStats Query holds around 2,500 internationally comparable education indicators for access, progression, completion, literacy, teachers, population, and expenditures. The indicators cover the education cycle from pre-primary to tertiary education. The query also holds learning outcome data from international learning assessments (PISA, TIMSS, etc.), equity data from household surveys, and projection data to 2050.

3. Gender StatisticsData on key gender topics. Themes included are demographics, education, health, labour force, and political participation.

4. Health Nutrition and Population StatisticsKey health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources.

5. Poverty and Equity DatabasePoverty and Equity Database.

6. Doing BusinessObjective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the sub national and regional level.

7. IDA Results Measurement SystemMeasures progress on aggregate outcomes for IDA countries for selected indicators.

8. Millennium Development GoalsDatabase of official indicators for monitoring progress toward Millennium Development Goals.

9. Quarterly Public Sector DebtJointly developed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the database brings together detailed public sector debt data of selected developing /emerging market countries.

10. Joint External Debt HubBrings together external debt data and selected foreign assets from international creditor/market sources - jointly developed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS),

the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB).

 11. JobsGlobal data on individuals, firms, and the business environments.

12. Global Economic ProspectsExamines growth trends for the global economy and how they affect developing countries. The reports include three-year forecasts for the global economy and long-term global scenarios which look ten years into the future.

13. Africa Development IndicatorsAfrica Development Indicators 2012/13 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering 53 African countries. See

14. Worldwide Governance IndicatorsAggregate and individual governance indicators for 213 economies over the period 1996-2009, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability; Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism; Government Effectiveness; Regulatory Quality; Rule of Law; Control of Corruption.

15. Health Nutrition and Population Statistics: Population estimates and projectionsHealth Nutrition and Population Statistics: Population estimates and projections

16. Health Nutrition and Population Statistics by Wealth QuintileHealth Nutrition and Population Statistics by Wealth Quintile.

17. Landmine Contamination, Casualties and Clearance (LC3D)Country level data on a broad range of issues related to landmines and cluster munitions, including contamination, casualties and clearance, and their associated cost.

18. Global Economic Monitor (GEM) CommoditiesCollection of monthly commodities prices and indices from 1960 to present, updated on the third working day of each month, as presented in the Commodity Price Data (a.k.a. Pink Sheet), published continuously for more than half a century.

19. Enterprise SurveysThe world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies.

20. Global Economic Monitor (GEM)Daily updates of global economic developments for high income and developing countries - covers exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, and emerging market bond indices.

 

21. International Debt StatisticsInternational Debt Statistics (IDS)—formerly known as Global Development Finance (GDF)—provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

22. Gender Statistics : Highlights from 2012 World Development ReportThe Gender Statistics: Highlights from 2012 World Development Report database provides subset of gender indicators from the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development.

23. Global Bilateral MigrationGlobal matrices of bilateral migrant stocks spanning the period 1960-2000, disaggregated by gender and based primarily on the foreign-born concept.

24. UNCTAD - Trade Analysis Information System (TRAINS)The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trade Analysis Information System (TRAINS) contains information on Imports, Tariffs and Non-Tariff Measures over 150 countries.

25. International Comparison Program (2005)A collection of comparative price data and detailed expenditure values of countries’ gross domestic products (GDP), and purchasing power parities (PPPs) estimates of the world’s economies.

26. Global Findex (Global Financial Inclusion Database)The Global Financial Inclusion Database provides 800 country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics—gender, age, education,

27. The Atlas of Social Protection: Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE)The World Bank’s ASPIRE online tool is the most up-to-date compilation of global social protection and labour (SPL) estimates, including data from 112 countries—mostly in the developing world.

28. Exporter Dynamics Database: Country-YearThe Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) is the first database providing measures of exporter characteristics and dynamics in 45 countries across all geographic regions and income levels. The EDD contains.

29. Country Policy and Institutional AssessmentThe World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment is done annually for all its borrowing countries. It has evolved into a set of criteria, which are grouped in four clusters.

30. Exporter Dynamics Database: Country-Year-DestinationThe Exporter Dynamics Database is the first database providing measures of exporter characteristics and dynamics in 45 countries across all geographic regions and income levels.

 31. Exporter Dynamics Database: Country-Year-Product HS2

The Exporter Dynamics Database is the first database providing measures of exporter characteristics and dynamics in 45 countries across all geographic regions and income levels.

32. Exporter Dynamics Database: Country-Year-Product HS4The Exporter Dynamics Database is the first database providing measures of exporter characteristics and dynamics in 45 countries across all geographic regions and income levels.

33. Exporter Dynamics Database: Country-Year-Product HS6The Exporter Dynamics Database is the first database providing measures of exporter characteristics and dynamics in 45 countries across all geographic regions and income levels.

34. Global Partnership for EducationGlobal Partnership for Education

35. Global Financial DevelopmentThe Global Financial Development Database is an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 203 economies. The database includes measures of (1) size of financial institutions and markets.

36. ESCAP World Bank: International Trade CostsThe Trade Costs Dataset provides estimates of bilateral trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2011 period. It is built on trade and production data collected in 182 countries. 37. Sustainable Energy for AllThe “Sustainable Energy for all (SE4ALL)” initiative, launched in 2010 by the UN Secretary General, established three global objectives to be accomplished by 2030: to ensure universal access to modern.

38. Service Delivery IndicatorsThe Service Delivery Indicators program is an application of the principles of the 2004 World Development Report Making Services Work for Poor People.

39. Wealth AccountingWealth Accounting supplements macroeconomic indicators, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), by measuring the comprehensive wealth of a country. While changes in GDP tell us if growth is occurring.

40. INDO-DAPOER (Indonesia Database for Policy and Economic Research)The Indonesia Database for Policy and Economic Research (INDO-DAPOER) contains over 200 province- and district-level indicators which span across four main categories: fiscal, economic, social and demographic, as well as infrastructure.

 41. Subnational MalnutritionSubnational estimates of child malnutrition (prevalence for stunting, underweight, overweight, wasting and severe wasting indicators) using available data up to 2012

42. LAC EQUITY LAB

Poverty, shared prosperity, and equity indicators for LAC

43. India Power Sector Review DatabaseThis database underpins the analysis in the report “More Power to India: The Challenge of Electricity Distribution”. The database is a collection of primary and secondary data on the Indian power sector, 44. Country Partnership Strategy for India (FY2013-17)A selection of Indian sub-national (state) indicators on economic and social sectors relevant to the World Bank Group Country Partnership Strategy for India for the period 2013-2017

45. Agriculture in Africa – Telling Facts from MythsIndicators derived on the "Agriculture in Africa – Telling Facts from Myths" project

46. Subnational PovertyPoverty data at the administrative unit level 1, based on national poverty line(s). Administrative unit level 1 refers to the highest subnational unit level (examples include ‘state’, ‘governorate’, ‘province’)

47. Quarterly External Debt Statistics/GDDS (New)In October 2014, the World Bank launched the new Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) GDDS database consistent with the classifications and definitions of the 2013 External Debt Statistics.

48. Quarterly External Debt Statistics/SDDS (New)In October 2014, the World Bank launched the new Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) SDDS database consistent with the classifications and definitions of the 2013 External Debt Statistics.

49. WDI Database Archives (beta)The WDI Database Archives (WDI-DA) contains previous versions of the World Development Indicators database. Data are drawn from all available electronic releases going back to 1989.

50. Sub national PopulationSub national Population Database presents estimated population at the first administrative level below the national level. Many of the data come from the country’s national statistical offices.

 51. Africa Infrastructure: AirportAfrica Infrastructure: Airport

52. Africa Infrastructure: WSS UtilityAfrica Infrastructure: WSS Utility

53. Africa Infrastructure: ElectricityAfrica Infrastructure: Electricity

54. Africa Infrastructure: Ports

Africa Infrastructure: Ports

55. Africa Infrastructure: National DataAfrica Infrastructure: National Data

56. Africa Infrastructure: RailwaysAfrica Infrastructure: Railways

57. G20 Financial Inclusion IndicatorsThe G20 Basic Set of Financial Inclusion data repository includes detailed data from users and providers of financial services. The Basic Set measures both access to financial services (“supply-side” data).

Bibliography:

1. http://databank.worldbank.org/Data/Databases.aspx 2. http://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=world-development-

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