General Economics References

Resources for Economists on the Internet - This guide lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. In all, more than 700 resources are listed here and almost all are also described.

The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank - Economic Research Page - This had current data on naerly all macroeconomic factors of iunterest and also a front page article highlighting some current issue in the macroeconomy.

Economy.com - From their website: "Economy.com, Inc. is a leading provider of economic, financial, and industry research designed to meet the diverse planning and information needs of business organizations, governments, and professional investors worldwide. We were one of the first to provide high quality, proprietary business information on the Internet to business users and investors."

The Internet Public Library - Economics References This page has a number of links all of which are searchable. The links include data sources, general information on economics, and specific information on economics.

WebEc - an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW. WebEc is awarded, framed and searchable and open for additions and comments.

Social Indicators of Development - "Social Indicators of Development" contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for over 170 economies, omitting only those for which data are inadequate.

Trends in Developing EconomiesTrends in Developing Economies (TIDE) - provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries. This compendium of individual country economic trends complements the World Bank's World Development Report, which looks at major global and regional economic trends and their implications for the future prospects of the developing economies. TIDE digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain recent developments for the benefits of readers who are familiar with macroeconomics but not, perhaps, with every country under review.

The text is descriptive. It is mainly concerned with current events and the recent past in each country, but also places events in context by bringing out the distinguishing characteristics of a country's economy, its problems and prospects, and the principal elements of its development strategy. While the choice of topics may vary from one country text to another, recurrent themes are government initiatives in progress or under consideration, economic and social factors affecting development, and the external debt situation.

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