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and staff)
- Asia-Studies
Full-Text Online (formerly known as APEC Full-Text
Studies Online)
The premier database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. Includes thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands.
- Center
for Population Economics (CPE) at University of Chicago
CPE specializes in
the development of life-cycle and intergenerational data sets to
study demographic, epidemiological, and economic processes, and,
among other things, develops software to facilitate the retrieval
of data from archival sources, to clean the data sets and to manipulate
the data for purposes of analyses.
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Provides selected full-text on topics in international affairs. Updated
each month, CIAO includes working papers, conference proceedings,
journal and book abstracts, links to related resources, and a schedule
of events in the international affairs scholarly community.
- CQ
Press Political Reference Suite
Brings together seven reference tools: Congress and the Nation (perspective
and analysis of the U.S. Congress 1945-2004); Historical Documents Series; Political Handbook
of the World; Politics in America; Supreme Court Yearbook; Vital
Statistics on American Politics (includes House and Senate election results,
by Congress, 1788-2004); and Washington Information Directory.
- Countries and Regions: Statistics and Text Resources
A guide prepared by Northwestern's Government and Georgrapic Information and Data Services Department. Directs researchers to full-text sources available online, databases purchased by Northwestern University Library, and to materials located at the Library.
- Demography & Population
Studies, from the World-Wide Web Virtual Library
- Doing Business. Benchmarking
Business Regulations
Hosted by the World Bank, this site provides objective measures
of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business
indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the
regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific
regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity
and growth.
- EconEdLink
Created by the National Council on Economic Education, provides a premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
- Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
- Economic
Report of the U.S. President
- Economics Research Network
- Economist --
Country Briefings: Reference collection of country profiles
- Europa World: The Europa World Year Book online
- Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Includes international business newsletters: Business Africa, Business
Asia, Business China, Business Eastern Europe, Business Europe,
Business India, Business Latin America, Business Middle East, Business
Russia,
Country Commerce, Country Finance, Country Monitor, European Policy
Analyst. Also includes selected Country Reports for African countries.
- Elsevier
Handbooks in Economics
- Fed
In Print: A comprehensive index to Federal Reserve economic research
- Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors
Home
page for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System provides
links to economic research and data, monetary policy, consumer
information, and more. Includes a section on recent statistical
releases.
- FirstGov: Your First Click to the
U.S. Government
- GATT
Digital Library
- Global Gateway. World Culture and Resources
Hosted by the Library of Congress, this site provides a wealth of links, including World Libraries and Collections, which comprises links to Collaborative Digital Libraries and Individual Digital Collections; and a more general listing of links, databases, and resources, including Portals to the World; Research Guides and Databases, and more.
See, for example, the Country Studies, which include Historical, social, economic, and political analyses of individual countries.
- Inter-American Development Bank
Site includes full text of recent
publications and newsletters.
- International
Monetary Fund (IMF) Publications
- ISI Emerging Markets
- Latinnews.com
Access to Latin American news, politics, economy, etc., including Latin American-Asia Review,
is now available. The Latin Intelligence Service (LIS) provides
a premier comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in
Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean; covering political,
security, economic and strategic issues.
- Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
- Making
of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
- Making
of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic
Literature 1450-1850
This database provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works
of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text
searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access
to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions,
politics, trade and transport. Formerly known as Making of the Modern Economy.
- OxResearch/Oxford
Analytica
- Public Opinion Research Reports
This site provide Canadian government public opinion research reports from a wide variety of departments and agencies. Includes reports contracted from August 2006 to the present. Click on "Find a Report" for specific materials, or "What's New" for recent additions to the database. Older public opinion research reports can be found via the national Library and Archives of Canada.
- Roper
Center for Public Opinion Research and IPOLL
Includes access to RoperExpress, which offers unlimited
access to public opinion data.
- SourceOECD
SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Stanford Institute for
Economic Policy Research
Includes policy briefs, index to
discussion papers, and more.
- UC Atlas
of Global Inequality Online
The Atlas “explores the interaction between global integration (globalization)
and inequality.” Themes include economic globalization, health, and income
inequality. Includes time series maps of the world that show patterns of inequality
and a database that allows tables and graphs to be generated and downloaded for
selected data and countries.
- United Nations
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)
- United Nations Environmental Programme
- UN-HABITAT
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme)
The library
now has a subscription to all print and electronic titles offered
by this UN agency. Focus is on the developing world,
especially the African continent. For more information, consult
Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department,
or visit
the online publications catalog.
- USAID
- U.S.
Congressional Serial Set
Consult Government and Geographic Information and Data Services for access information)
- U.S. Department of
Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-2007 Edition
Basic information for hundreds, including such details as the training
and education required or each position, expected earnings, future
job prospects, and information on working conditions, and how to
evaluate a job offer.
- World Fact Book from the CIA
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
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Last updated: 08/10/07 |
