Infation Data and Economic Reports
- WDI Online: World Development IndicatorsWDI Online is a comprehensive database on development data covering more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of comparative development data includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years (starting in 1960 where data are available).
- Global Financial DataVery long time series where data is available, sometimes extending back to the 18th century.
- Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports ArchiveThis database is a unique online archive of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s quarterly country reports, from their beginning in 1952 up to 1995. The reports combine detailed statistical information with expert commentary and analysis from the EIU’s analysts, providing high quality summaries of political, economic and commercial developments in almost 200 countries.
- EIU Country ProfilesEIU Profiles and Reports provide timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment in a total of 126 reports about more than 180 countries. They present the political and economic structure of the country, the current political scene, economic policy, domestic economy (covering industry, agriculture, money and finance), foreign trade and payments.
General and Financial News Sources
- Economist, 1843-2010Prominent British magazine covering economic and newsworthy events around the world.
- Financial Times, 1888-2021Provides online access to a complete facsimile run of the Financial Times from 1888 to 2010.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1966The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence, consisting of Daily Reports published from September 4, 1941 through 1996. Produced in cooperation with Dartmouth College Library, the Library of Congress, Tufts University, and Yale University.
- JPRS: Joint Publication Research Service, 1957-1994Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) was established in March 1957 as part of the United States Department of Commerce's Office of Technical Services, about six months before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. Acting as a unit within the Central Intelligence Agency, JPRS staffers prepared translations for the use of U.S. Government officials, various agencies, and the research and industrial communities.
- ProQuest historical newspapersFull-text and full-image articles from the full historical backfiles of major newspapers in the United States, England, Canada, China and India.
Intergovernmental organization and policy documents
- Policy CommonsCollects policy documents from IGOs, NGOs, and think tanks worldwide. Lots of fulltext.
- IMF eLibrary Books and PeriodicalsAccess to the IMF's periodicals, books, working papers and studies
- World Bank E-LibraryFulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance, globalization, governance, health and population, industry, infrastructure, international economics, labor and employment, macroeconomics and growth, poverty, private sector development, public sector management, rural development, social development, transition economies, urban development.
Spcialty Collections
- iPOLL / Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. 1935-present.The preeminent database of individual poll questions, covering almost half a million questions from reported survey results received at the Roper Center that have US national adult samples or samples of any subpopulation that constitutes a large segment of the national adult population. Includes Gallup poll reports. iPOLL permits reconstructing poll questionnaires. Many polls represented in iPOLL have microdata datasets available for download through the Roper Center catalog.
- Making of the Modern World, 1450-1850Provides images of unique primary sources, primarily books and pamphlets, that track the development of the modern western world through the lens of economic issues such as trade and wealth.
