Global History of Inflation: Primary Sources: Data, News, Policy

WDI 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).

Very long time series where data is available, sometimes extending back to the 18th century.

This 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 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.

Prominent British magazine covering economic and newsworthy events around the world.

Provides online access to a complete facsimile run of the Financial Times from 1888 to 2010.

The 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.

Joint 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.

Full-text and full-image articles from the full historical backfiles of major newspapers in the United States, England, Canada, China and India.

Collects policy documents from IGOs, NGOs, and think tanks worldwide. Lots of fulltext.

Access to the IMF's periodicals, books, working papers and studies

Fulltext 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.

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.

Provides 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.