Welcome
Welcome to the guide to library materials for Economics 4334/International Business 4334. This guide will have different types of information sources, all connected to development economics, that can assist you in gathering information about different geographic locations.
Sources for articles
These are resources available on the library homepage. To locate them, click on the link "E-Resources" at the top of the page and then search by keyword (database name) or by subject area (economics). Encounter any difficulties in using the database? Contact your business librarian, Carol Schuetz, for assistance.
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ProQuest One BusinessDesigned to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning and acquire the research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers, ProQuest One Business is a complete business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. This resource combines multiple business information databases which are within the ProQuest ABI/Inform Collection such as Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection, Asian & European Business Collection, Entrepreneurship Database, and J.P. Morgan Research. Replaces ABI/INFORM..
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Business source completeIndexes scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and much more. About 80% of the journals are available with full text.
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EconLitEconLit is the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economic literature. EconLit is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations. In addition, EconLit includes citations to articles in collective volumes indexed in the annual volumes of the Index of Economic Articles, articles from over 250 journals not indexed in JEL, and the full-text of JEL book reviews.
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EconPapers : economics at your fingertipsProvides a searchable collection of on-line economics working papers, journal articles, books and book chapters, and software. The majority of materials are available as full-text documents. Searches throughout the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) initiative sponsored by the Stockholm School of Economics, an open network of archives of current material in the field of economics. The site includes information for authors and tracks citation information, helping to inform users which papers or articles are cited or quoted by other articles or papers in the database.
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Social Science Research Network : SSRNSocial Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). The SSRN eLibrary consists of abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format.
Sources for data
These resources are available through the library's electronic resources. They provide data which has been collect by organizations such as the United Nations or the World Bank.
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Data-planet : a universe of dataProvides statistical data from U.S. government publications, state and private sources, and international organizations. Conduct search by keyword(s) and limit results by publishing organization, geographic region, local area, or broad subject. Data may be further restricted by demographic features (age, marital status, industry, etc.).
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FAOSTATAn online, multilingual database provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. It also contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs, just in its core.
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GapminderGapminder is a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries in the form of enjoyable and interactive graphs.
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GATT digital library : 1947-1994"Provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994."
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United Nations Common Database (UNdata)More than 450 statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Descriptions of the international sources and definitions used in compiling the data are included.
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United Nations Development Programme : UNDPFeatures the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which helps people worldwide help themselves and focuses on poverty elimination, environmental regeneration, job creation, and the advancement of women. The mission of the UNDP is to help countries build national capacity to achieve sustainable human development, giving top priorities to eliminating poverty and building equity. Lists regional offices, country offices, and individual divisions. Describes publications and focus areas, offers access to news items, UNDP publication information, and statistics.
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World Bank e-LibraryThis database is fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,600 World Bank publications and over 2,400 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.
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World databankWorld Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).
