The Africa Live Database (LDB) is auser-friendly computer-based data tool that consists of: a)a Local Data Base--a tool for in-depth economic work; b)query-- a tool for storing and manipulating economic andsectoral variables; and c) Africa briefings-- presortedready-to-use data. The system was developed by the AfricaRegion of the World Bank with two complementary goals inmind: 1) in the short term, to provide staff in the regionwith an efficient means of collecting, analyzing andmanipulating economic and sectoral data; and 2) in the longterm, to become the linchpin of a major effort for capacitybuilding in African countries, aimed at upgrading localcapacity in statistical data collection and analysis. This,combined with other initiatives, could then become apowerful tool for monitoring the impact of policy ondevelopment. The LDB responds to three sets of client needs:a) staff in the World Bank, b) users of statisticalinformation in client countries, and c) other users ofstatistical information worldwide-- other donors,researchers, banks, etc.
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