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Institute of Development Studies Hosts the Eldis database, which provides access to 100,000 Web pages and 10,000 full-text studies.
International Fund for Agricultural Development Focuses on the programs and projects of IFAD, which works to eliminate rural hunger and poverty in developing countries.
International Monetary Fund The strength of the IMF site is its full-text studies and reports, thousands of which are organized by country on its Country Information page. This is not an outstanding source of statistics.
Microstate Network The site's main attraction is a directory of organizations--mostly NGOs--organized primarily by region. Although the criteria for inclusion are not stringent, there are many gems here.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Provides hundreds of free online publications on topics in economic and social development, in addition to more than 4,000 that can be purchased. This site also presents a broad assortment of statistics.
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Under National Information, the CSD brings together broad and detailed social, economic, institutional, and environmental data.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development The most useful aspects of this site are its project pages.
United Nations Development Fund for Women Includes news and studies related to women's rights, women's economic empowerment, and increasing women's role in the decision-making processes affecting their lives.
United Nations Development Program Although this site includes hundreds of full-text reports and studies, its strength is its descriptions of UNDP programs. It is not an exceptional statistical source.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa This site, which is for the most part arranged by development issue, provides links to excellent regional sites on information technology, gender, governance, and regional integration.
United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific Provides full-text reports, studies, journals, and statistics on economic and social development, with special emphasis given to population, women, the environment, natural resources, commerce, industry, tourism, and infrastructure improvement.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe This is the UN's main source of studies and statistics on economic and social development in Europe and the Former Soviet Republics.
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ECLAC is the leading source of economic analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean. The site includes many full-text studies.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization This site, from the leading industrial development organization, is useful but not outstanding. It contains online publications and UNIDO project descriptions.
World Bank This is one of the most extensive sources of development-related statistics and full-text studies on the Internet.
World Bank Institute This site is most notable for its Development Topics, which lead users to links organized by subject.
World Institute for Development Economics Research Includes the World Income Inequality Database and hundreds of outstanding full-text publications.
CHASS Data Centre Includes databases from many IGOs and Canadian governmental sources. Focuses on economic and financial data.
Country Information Sheets on Health, Nutrition, Population, and Poverty Provide statistics concerning intra-country differences between rich and poor as measured by HNP service and use.
Exchange Rates for Selected Currencies Find today's exchange rates to the eighth decimal point.
Financial Data and Resource Locators Provides an enormous selection of links to information on international finance, banking, and stocks exchanges.
Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 1999 Part I compares the developing countries of the region on selected social, economic, and financial indicators, while Part II presents time-series data for each country.
OECD Statistics Provides a broad array of social, economic, and environmental statistics. Some data is limited to OECD member nations.
Penn World Tables: An Expanded Set of International Comparisons One of the richest sources of international statistics on the Internet, the Penn World Tables cover 152 countries and 29 broad subject areas.
Poverty Monitoring Database Includes income/consumption surveys, data from World Bank poverty assessments, and social indicator tables.
Social Indicators Includes data on population, youth and the elderly, housing, water supply and sanitation, health, childbearing, education, literacy, income, and unemployment from the UN Statistics Division.
Statistics and Quantitative Analysis Unit, Inter-American Development Bank Includes web-based databases and statistics for the Americas.
World Economic Outlook Database Presents several types of GDP data and statistics on inflation.
World Income Inequality Database Collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.
Indexes project reports of the United Nations Development
Programme issued between 1972 and 1998. Reports for 1989 onward may be
found in the Government Documents Library under the call number
MFICHE338.91Un4. UIUC users only.
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