Meridian Frontier is a focused dashboard on the questions at the intersection of trade, environment, agriculture and development. It covers deforestation and the EUDR, the carbon and income tension, structural transformation, and inequality. Every series is pulled live from the source, never hand-entered. Built by an economist, for reading the numbers closely.
Each card opens a live view in the Explorer below. Grouped by domain, anchored on a real research question.
Any indicator, any set of economies, live from the World Bank. Switch between trend and latest, set the range, export the data.
connecting to source
Plot one indicator against another for a single economy over time. The view a bar chart can't give you: co-movement.
Correlation is not causation. This is descriptive, not an identification strategy.
Meridian Frontier is a personal research instrument built and maintained by Ayodele Idowu, an economist and data scientist. It is deliberately narrow, covering the questions I work on: trade and climate policy, environmental and agricultural economics, development and inequality, rather than trying to mirror the large general data portals.
Every figure is fetched in your browser, in real time, from the World Bank's public API. Nothing is cached on a server and nothing is hand-entered, so a number here is exactly as fresh as the institution that publishes it. The source and its refresh date sit on every chart.
The relationship view is intentionally labelled as descriptive. Co-movement is not identification; the point of the tool is to look closely and ask better questions, not to claim causal effects.