Inter-American Development Bank

Public Debt around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt by Dany Jaimovich, Ugo Panizza. Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Working Paper 561, March 2006. Brief Description: Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. It includes complete series of central government debt for 89 countries over the 1991-2005 period and for seven other countries for the 1993-2005 period. Years covered: 1991-2005.