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382 International commerce: general resources

        Titles Descriptions
  1. Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade
  2. Chambers of Commerce
  3. Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts
  4. globalEDGE International Business Resource Desk
  5. Intute: social sciences - trade and trade policy
  6. Market Access Database: The guide to cracking world markets
  7. Trade and Environment Database
  8. Trade, Income Disparity and Poverty
  9. Traidcraft
  10. UNIDO Databanks
  11. World Trade Organisation
Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade
For researchers and business people who want to research free trade and NAFTA issues online. The CSWHT page features a statistical database, IT-IS, which searches imports/exports for 42 countries; trade publications; funded research projects and a contact list of trade experts.
      Author: University of Texas at Austin
      DeweyClass: 382.9
Chambers of Commerce
Directory of Chambers of Commerce in countries around the world. Includes postal, telephone, fax, and email contact information, and links to Web sites where available.
      Author: Bighelli, Giorgio
      DeweyClass: 382
Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts
Report of a study assessing the state of knowledge about gender inequality and trade, informing the development of policy in this area, and identifying areas for future policy relevant research. Reviews existing research on gender and trade, and provides case studies for Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica. PDF.
      Author: Sussex University Institute of Development Studies
      DeweyClass: 382
globalEDGE International Business Resource Desk
Collection of links to research materials, news and periodicals, and trade information pertaining to international business. Offers outlines of the political structure, economic climate, history, and statistical data for more than 180 countries, and also features a glossary of business terms used worldwide.
      Author: Michigan State University
      DeweyClass: 382
Intute: social sciences - trade and trade policy
Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to trade and trade policy.
      Author: Intute
      DeweyClass: 382
Market Access Database: The guide to cracking world markets
Provides reports on sectoral and trade barriers worldwide. Material can be browsed by industry such as shipbuilding, financial services, electronics, telecommunications, agriculture, fisheries, and tourism, by measure including general trade policy, tariff and non-tariff barriers, business services, IPR related issues, and investment, or by country.
      Author: European Commission
      DeweyClass: 382
Trade and Environment Database
A collection of over 450 trade and environment case studies organised by region or date. Studies include Mexican deforestation in the Sierra Madre, Haiti sanctions, the role of trade in transmitting the Black Death and UK nuclear fuel reprocessing.
      Author: Lee, James R.
      DeweyClass: 382
Trade, Income Disparity and Poverty
World Trade Organisation report finding that the liberalisation of trade helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones. Discusses trade, growth, and disparity among nations, the connection between trade and poverty, income, economic growth, taxes and spending, and price changes and the transmission of shocks. Report is available in English, French, and Spanish in PDF format.
      Author: World Trade Organisation
      DeweyClass: 382
Traidcraft
UK fair trading organisation that seeks to narrow the gap between people in the 'third world' and people in the UK, mainly by proving the commercial viability of an alternative trading system.
      Author: Traidcraft
      DeweyClass: 382
UNIDO Databanks
Industrial statistics and International Trade
      Author: IMF and MIMAS
      DeweyClass: 382
World Trade Organisation
Global organisation dealing with the rules of trade between nations. Includes an interactive training package on the work of the WTO, answers to common questions, news, official documentation, and guides to trade issues such as intellectual property, GATT, and competition policy.
      Author: World Trade Organisation
      DeweyClass: 382