Global Development Finance 2010: External Debt of Developing Countries provides comprehensive data from 128 developing countries showing the impact of the financial crisis on their access to international capital flows. This edition includes an overview section focusing on trends in financial flows as well as trends in external debt for developing countries in 2008. It also highlights support from the World Bank Group to developing countries and the developments in debt restructuring in 2008. Together with this review of major financial developments in the previous year, you can find summary tables of regional and income group aggregates, and country tables.

Global Development Finance 2010 is a continuation of the World Bank’s publication, Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 through 2009) and its precursor, World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996). The report provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

IMPORTANT NOTICE: In previous editions, the Global Development Finance (GDF) was published in two volumes "Volume 1: Analysis and Outlook" and "Volume 2: Summary and Country Tables". From this year onwards the GDF will be published as a single volume that includes an overview, and the summary and country tables. The GDF Volume 1 will no longer be published.

Global Development Finance 2010 CD-ROM

Global Development Finance CD-ROM* contains the complete time-series database, including more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2008. The database covers external debt stocks and flows and their components, foreign direct investment, and equity flows along with key debt ratios, providing a detailed, country-by-country picture of the debt of developing countries. The mapping and charting functions included allow users to visualize the data and save images for use in other applications. These features plus data export options in standard formats like Excel make GDF the most comprehensive and detailed source of economic data on external debt and financial flows.

* The CD-ROM system requires Windows XP SP3 or higher, 1 GB of available hard disk space, 1 GB of RAM, and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.