So some GIS Specialist at Yale has figured out how to produce standardized areal units based on the geographic, latitude/longitude grid and how to produce it on a global scale. It is GIS of a sort. Definitely not an ESRI product, but could be converted.
The site is called G-CON, Geographically Based Economic Data. Note the release of their data for you use and visualization. Creating a grid in ArcGIS to thier specifications is a relatively simple process. They also provide fully detailed documentation.
