A few places to start your research
- Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Intelligence This link opens in a new windowEIU 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
- Global Development Financecovers more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 128 countries with data from 1970 to 2008.
- Global Financial Datasource for deep macro-economic information on most countries.
- International Monetary Fund Data OnlineFinancial data by country, includes trade, interest rates, national accounts, and numerous government finance, monetary, and economic variables
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowBooks, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index This link opens in a new windowProvides international coverage of materials in government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas.
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowPublic opinion polls containing the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the U.S. and 80 other countries.
- World Development Indicators This link opens in a new windowProvides direct access to more than 900 development indicators, with time series for 210 economies going back to 1960
- UNSTATS: UN Statistics Division Common Databasecovers economic, social, financial and development topics, continuously updated.
- Official Documents of the United Nations (UN ODS) This link opens in a new windowODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993 (old documents being added regularly)