The following data are associated with John Luke Gallup and Jeffrey D. Sachs, with Andrew Mellinger, "Geography and Economic Development" (CID Working Paper no. 1, March 1999).
Stata format (access over the web):
use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/inst/geodata.dta 27 kb
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