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World economic data

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Bank of Hawaii: Includes Hawaian and Pacific Rim economic data, information on business trends, economic outlooks, and an interactive economic report builder.
Author: Bank of Hawaii
Subjects: banking, hawaii, world economic data
DeweyClass: 332.1
Resource type: institution
Bretton Woods Project: Provides information on, and critical analysis of, World Bank and International Monetary Fund policy and reports. Offers briefings and reports on current issues, and features a quarterly newsletter of Bank and IMF initiatives. Also includes a glossary of key terms.
Author: Bretton Woods Project
Subjects: banking, world economic data
DeweyClass: 332.1532
Resource type: documents
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
Subjects: international trade, world economic data
DeweyClass: 382.9
Resource type: documents
CIA World Factbook: Extensive reference work containing recent basic information about every country in the world, including details of geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
Author: CIA
Subjects: development studies, international relations, world economic data, world history, world population, world travel and tourism
DeweyClass: 351
Resource type: reference document
Cultural, Historical and Statistical Country Information: Detailed information on specific countries from around the world, covering subjects like economy, geography, people, national anthem lyrics, national flags, and current weather conditions. Teaching materials and links to additional Web resources of relevance are also provided.
Author: CountryReports.org
Subjects: geographical data, world economic data, world maps
DeweyClass: 910
Resource type: documents, maps, reference data
Financial Data Finder: Large collection of links and original financial and economic data.
Author: Ohio State University
Subjects: financial research, world economic data
DeweyClass: 332
Resource type: index
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Founded in October 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Now works to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improve nutrition and the pursuit of food security. Includes access to FAOSTAT, a multilingual database of time-series statistics in agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry and food control.
Author: UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Subjects: agricultural research, fisheries, forestry, nutrition, world economic data
DeweyClass: 630
Resource type: reference data
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS): Collection of publications, reports, databases and mailing lists concerned with food production, trade and consumption. Uses maps, satellite images, population data, and information on food shortages, crop prospects, current and present agricultural situations and weather conditions to assess productivity throughout the world. Available in English, French and Spanish.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Subjects: agricultural research, food production, world economic data, world population
DeweyClass: 338.19
Resource type: documents, images
Globastat: Presents a collection of comparative country rankings based on data in the CIA World Factbook. Broad categories comprise geography, people, government, economy, communications, transport, and the military.
Author: Ibadov, Azer
Subjects: world economic data, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data
IMF Financial Transactions Plan Quarterly Report: Provides the latest available quarterly report from the IMF detailing their financial sources and transactions. Data describing the quota, available resources at start and end periods, extensions of credit, repayments of credit, and creditor positions are tabulated for each member country.
Author: IMF
Subjects: financial news, world economic data
DeweyClass: 332
Resource type: reference data
InfoNation: Database allowing comparison of statistical data between United Nations countries. Up to seven countries can be selected and combined with variables under the headings: geography, economy, population and social indicators.
Author: United Nations Publications
Subjects: world economic data, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data
Intute: social sciences - statistics and data: Set of links to selected collections of statistics and to resources relevant to statistical analysis.
Author: Intute
Subjects: statistical methods, world economic data
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: index
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD World Bank Statistics on External Debt: International data from creditor and market sources, on the external debt of developing and transition countries. Includes information on stock of debt and flow figures for the latest complete year.
Author: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Subjects: economic development, world economic data
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data
NationMaster.com: Nation Master allows users to generate graphs based on numerical data extracted from the CIA World Fact book and provides comprehensive statistical details on any country in the world. Also allows users to create their own comparative graphical and statistical data on any number of countries according to nationality, geographic areas, political affiliations and commercial affiliations. More specifically, Nation Master has 335 statistical data sets, ranging from library books, forested land, Internet users, and airports to crime, economic development, and the environment. Whilst being fully searchable, Nation Master provides links to interesting facts and links to national profiles that include the available statistics for each country, images of the country's flag and a political map. Users can also browse numerous maps of the world and flags of the world.
Author: NationMaster.com
Subjects: crime, economic development, economic performance, statistics research, world economic data, world maps, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: maps, reference data
Penn World Table: Data on 138 countries, between 1950 and 1992, for 29 variables. Subsets can be extracted using forms. Also known as the Summers-Heston data.
Author: Summers, Robert & Heston, Alan
Subjects: world economic data
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data
SEDAC: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center Catalog Services: A metadata search system which enables users to identify databases, information systems, and other resources pertinent to the study of global environmental change, human interactions in the environment, and sustainable development. Thousands of entries of socioeconomic and natural science resources are available. The Gateway retrieves resource locators that have been registered at various sites throughout the Internet.
Author: CIESIN: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
Subjects: environmental links, global change, world economic data
DeweyClass: 333.7
Resource type: index
Social Science Data on the Internet: Extensive collection of Internet sites of numeric social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, financial and economic census files.
Author: University of California San Diego
Subjects: social science links, world economic data, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data
Sources of Statistics and Market Data: Links to sets of demographic data and macroeconomic data for various countries, with a content summary for many sources.
Author: Blakeman, Karen
Subjects: macroeconomics, world economic data, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: index
Statistical Resources on the Web: Index to sources of statistical data available on the Web. Sources are arranged by category, including agriculture, demographics, economics, environment, housing, politics and science.
Author: University of Michigan Documents Center
Subjects: economic performance, housing, world economic data, world population
DeweyClass: 310
Resource type: reference data index
US Agency for International Development: Annual Performance Plan 2000: Report outlining the agency's plans for the next year. Goals relate to economic growth and agricultural development, democracy and governance, education and training, population and health, the environment, and political development. Includes a series of appendices and tables of statistical data and is available as a PDF file.
Author: Agency for International Development
Subjects: development studies, world economic data
DeweyClass: 338.9
Resource type: document
World Atlas: Basic map of the world, with useful information on the climate, economy, government, history, people, trade, flags and major cities of individual countries. Includes a concise list of all 192 nations of the world, 57 overseas territories and dependencies, and capital cities.
Author: Graphic Maps
Subjects: world economic data, world maps
DeweyClass: 912
Resource type: maps
World Economic Outlook: Report providing a biannual assessment of the world economic situation. Areas addressed include Policy Responses to the Global Slowdown, Global Repercussions of the Crisis in Emerging Markets and Other Conjunctural Issues, International Financial Contagion, Chronic Unemployment in the Euro Areas: Causes and Cures. Full text of the 255-page report is available in PDF format, accompanied by tables and statistics.
Author: International Monetary Fund
Subjects: world economic data
DeweyClass: 330
Resource type: documents, reference data