GFI Comparison Panel and Claim Register, release 1.0 (November 2026)

Release 1 of a monthly comparative data product. Contents: (1) panel.csv, 50 economies against 12 indicators (inflation, growth, unemployment, central government debt, real and lending rates, GDP per capita at PPP, investment share, Gini, urbanisation, internet use, life expectancy) with latest value, five-year change and rank; (2) claims.csv, 29 testable claims with permanent identifiers GFI-AN-2026-001 to 029, each carrying its pooled, within-country and two-way fixed-effects correlation plus sample size and a plain-language status, of which six hold, four are weak, sixteen are not found and three reverse under controls; (3) forecasts.csv, directional one-year growth calls for major economies, published to be scored against the first official annual figure; (4) relations.csv, the full estimator output; (5) RELEASE.md and SHA256SUMS. Every release is immutable and hashed, and each published number that changes is logged and dated in the changelog. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, Eurostat, FDIC quarterly financials, US Treasury Fiscal Data, BLS, SEC EDGAR. Derived tables and prose are CC BY-NC 4.0; underlying source data keeps its own licence. Association only, no causal identification. Versioned monthly; cite the version DOI.