Changelog

v1.0.0 (in development)

• Stable release of the bblocks-data-importers package

v0.5.0 (2026-01-30)

• Refactor of World Bank importers
• Fix World Bank cache not persisting across sessions (WAL not checkpointed on exit)
• Add cache hit logging for World Bank data requests
• New data importer:
• BACI to access BACI harmonized international trade data
• IMF Debt Sustainability Assessments (DSA). This importer function downloads and parses the DSA PDF from the IMF website into a Pandas DataFrame

v0.4.1 (2025-07-16)

• Bug fix in utilities for dependency logging settings

v0.4.0 (2025-06-26) (latest version)

• Refactor of the package as a namespace package in the bblocks namespace

v0.3.0 (2025-04-07)

• New data importer - HumanDevelopmentIndex for UNDP Human Development Index data

v0.2.1 (2024-12-24)

• Made pyarrow versions more flexible for broader compatibility

v0.2.0 (2024-12-24)

• fix field names in WEO importer - changed misleading column name estimates_start_year to last_actual_date

v0.1.1 (2024-12-06)

• Fix bug in GHED importer from changed column names in December 2024 GHED data update

v0.1.0 (2024-12-06)

• Add importers for
• World Economic Outlook (WEO) data
• Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED) data
• World Food Programme (WFP) data
• World Bank data (general) and International Debt Statistics (IDS) data

v0.0.1 (2024-08-22)

• First release of bblocks_data_importers!