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The following list provides links to external Web sites of particular interest to the World Bank and IMF staff. Although chosen for their quality & relevance, the World Bank & IMF Libraries cannot guarantee the accuracy of these sites.
AFRICA
General
ASIA
General
- Asian Studies: University of Texas
- Asia Information - Helsinki School of Economics Library. Covers: Burma-Myanmar, Cambodia, China (Mainland), China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Republic), Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
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- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
- Worldbank - East Asia & Pacific Information
- Worldbank- South Asia Information
News
EASTERN EUROPE & FSU
See also: Statistical Databases
General
News
EUROPE
EUROPEAN UNION
Special thanks to Ann R. Sweeney, Librarian, European Union - European Commission Delegation, Washington, DC, for her permission to use this list of sites.
- EU Delegation to the U.S.
- Europa - Information on the European
Union; a service from the European Commission.
- The Euro - The official EU website on the Euro includes documents, legislation, links to other websites, and a search engine.
- European Central Bank - The website of the successor to the European Monetary Institute, responsible for supervision of the single currency, contains statistical documents and other studies and reports, as well as links to other websites.
- EURO Birth - Complete with flying stork, this site boasts a map of "Euroland," as well as a calculator toconvert various currencies into Euros.
Euro-Indicators.
- EuroStat - Statistical Office of the European Communities
- Euro-Indicators - From Eurostat, the Statistical Office, this site furnishes up-to-date Euro-related economic indicators for the 11 participating member-states, comparing these with data for all 15 member-states.
- SCADPlus: Economic and Monetary Union - SCADPlus is a database containing overviews of EU single market legislation and policies. When you arrive at SCADPlus, go down to "European Union Policies." Click on "Summaries and legislative follow-up." Then, under "Union Policies," click on "Economic and Monetary Union."
- Eur-Op News: Economic and Monetary Union - On the website of the EU's Office for Official Publications, this location contains an overview of information, documentation, and links relating to the Euro and EMU.
- Directorate General II: Economic and Financial Affairs - The DG responsible for EMU issues has placed the Euro Papers and other important documents and data on its website.
- Directorate General XV: Internal Market and Financial Services - This DG'S site on EMU furnishes several salient documents on the Euro.
- Directorate General XXIV: Consumer Policy and Consumer Health Protection - This DG's site on the Euro contains some unique documents from the European consumer's perspective.
- European Investment Bank
- EUROPARL - This is the European Parliament's website. The "EP and Euro: Practical Guide for the Press" site provides links to EP actions concerning the Euro.
- EUR-Lex - This EU legislative website provides free access to the full text of the most recent 45 days of the L (legislation) and C (communications, notices, proposed legislation, etc.) versions of the Official Journal, to full-text (excluding long or complicated annexes) EU legislation in force, and to full-text EU treaties. Of course, it also provides access to EU legislation on the Euro, including the fixing of conversion rates.
- RAPID - Source for all full-text press releases concerning the Euro and EMU Economic and Monetary Union.
LATIN AMERICA
General
News
MIDDLE EAST
General
News
- al-Ayam- daily Arabic and English news from Bahrain
- al-Ayyam -- daily Arabic paper from Palestine
- al-Hadath -- daily paper from Jordan
- al-Hayat -- daily paper from Lebanon
- al Ittihad Newspaper- daily Arabic newspaper from the United Arab Emirates
- al-Jumhurriyya -- daily Arabic newspaper from Egypt
- al-Sabee -- daily paper from Jordan
- al-Safir -- daily paper from Lebanon
- Ettelaat-- daily Arabic newspaper from Iran
- Ha'aretz-- daily newspaper from Israel
- Hamshahri -- daily Arabic newspaper from Iran
- Khaleej Times- daily news update from the United Arab Emirates, Gulf and Middle East
- Yemen Times (Arabic version)
- Yemen Times (English version)
Journals
GLOBAL
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES & OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
See also: IFC, IMF, MIGA, World Bank
AGRICULTURE: FAO
- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) offers both statistical data and textual information.
- FAO WAICENT
- The World Agricultural Information Centre - is FAO's strategic programme on information management and dissemination. Using Internet technologies, WAICENT provides access to FAO's data and information. WAICENT also provides specialised information systems on topics of global relevance, such as Desertification, Gender and Sustainable Development, Food Standards, Animal Genetic Resources, Post-Harvest Operations, Agro-Biodiversity and Food Systems in Urban Centres.
- World Food Summit
1996 Summit aimed at renewing global commitment to the fight against hunger.
AGRICULTURE: USDA
Other Agricultural Sites
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AGDB : Agriculture-Related Information Systems, Databases, & Datasets
- CGIAR- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - Jointly sponsored by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Environment Programme.
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CAMASE register of agro-ecosystems models
- HungerWeb - Contains both primary information, made available by the World Hunger Program and its partners, and links to other sites relevant to hunger issues.
- Rural Development sector family - Contains links to Rural Development thematic groups:
Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems, Animal Resources, Common Property Resource Management Network,Community-Based Rural Development, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forests and Forestry, Gender,Land Policy and Administration, Sustainable Land Management, Sustainable Plant Systems Intensification, Water Resources Management, and Rural, Microfinance and SMEs.
- Union Catalogue of Agricultural Books and Periodicals .
A central database containing data from over 70 Dutch libraries with substantial collections in agriculture. - WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture
- WWW Virtual Library: Agricultural Economics
- WWW Virtual Library : Forestry
BOOKSTORES & PUBLISHERS
BUSINESS
CENTRAL & DEVELOPMENT BANKS
COMPUTING & INTERNET
Web and HTML Resources - World-Wide Web Home - Information about
the WEB, including a list of ALL registered WEB sites in the world.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CURRENCY CONVERTERS
DIRECTORIES OF PEOPLE & BUSINESSES
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
EDUCATION : UNESCO
EDUCATION : U.S. Department of Education
EDUCATION : Distance Education & Educational Technology Links
EDUCATION : Additional Resources
EMERGING MARKETS
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
ENERGY & MINING
ENVIRONMENT AND GEOGRAPHY
- Air & Waste Management Association - The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional organization that provides training, information, and networking opportunities to 12,000 environmental professionals in 65 countries.
- The CIA World Factbook
- CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network -
Specializes in the access and integration of physical, natural, and socioeconomic information across scientific disciplines.
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Environmental Information Resources - from George Washington University
U.S. & International Environmental Resources, Environmental Education Programs, Environmental Career Opportunities, Environmental Usenet News Groups, Environmental Listservs, WWW Search Engines.
- EPA Environmental Protection Agency -
- The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research.
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - IISDnet
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) - Green Pages
- The National Library for the Environment - Find over 100 short Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on environmental issues.
- The Program on Environment Information Systems (EIS) in Sub-Saharan Africa
- initiated by the World Bank in conjunction with other donors and international agencies in 1990 to promote the implementation of effective environmental information systems (EIS) to support the process of sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa.
- State Department
- UNEP The United Nations
Environment Programme
- World Health Organization ---Environmental Health
- WRI (World Resources Institute)
Look up topics in the areas of: Biological Resources and Institutions, International Development and Environment, Climate, Energy and Pollution, Economics and Population, Environmental Education, Resource and Environmental Information Technology.
- World Resources 1998-99 : A Report by World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme and World Bank. Focuses on the critical issue environmental change and human health.
- World Resources 1996-97 - This report explores the range of urban environmental problems in developing and developed countries and analyzes key policies for addressing them.
- World Bank Sites
- Africa Region's Sector Knowledge Base (Best Practice System) - pointers in areas corresponding to the Regional Programs including agriculture, education, energy, environment, financial sector, transport, private sector development, public sector management, poverty, aids, hunger and food security, rural infrastructure, gender, population, health and nutrition.
- Environmental Economics and Indicators Unit - formed at the end of 1995 in the World Bank to serve as a focal point for two important areas of applied environmental economics: new thinking on measuring the environment, and focused application of best practice on valuing the environment.
- Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development - ESSD
- New Ideas in Pollution Regulation
GENDER & CHILDREN
GENDER
CHILDREN
- Children's House - a cooperate initiative by AIFS, CIDEF, Children's Rights Centre, Childwatch, Consultative Group, CRIN, Family Life Development Centre, IIN, NOSEB, Radda Barnen, ISCA, UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank and WHO.
- Early Childhood Care and Development - International Resources in Support of Young Children (ages 0-8) and their Families
- international, inter-agency site dedicated to improving the condition of young children at risk. It is supported by the World Bank , UNICEF , UNESCO and other NGO and bilateral aid agencies. The site includes:
- The Future of Children a journal which disseminates timely information on major issues related to children's well-being. Sectoral Library also has paper issues 1994 - to present.
- Global Childnet - a nonprofit group which uses the Internet to offer a range of child health related on-line services. These services include databases and other information on issues related to the well-being of the world's children including :
- The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health - NCEMCH has available :
- The United Nations Childrens Fund - UNICEF
- State of the World's Children - contains statistics and text on children worldwide. The 1998 issue focuses on nutrition. Sectoral Library has older editions 1982 - present (RJ101 .S785)
- UNICEF Country Profiles - 1996 contains data on countries where UNICEF is active. Data includes social and health indicators and details of UNICEF activities. See also the 1995 country profiles list .
- The Progress of Nations 1997 - begun in 1993, ranks nations according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress for women. Each section is accompanied by a "Progress and Disparity" report and includes a social indicators and statistical profiles table.
HEALTH, NUTRITION, & POPULATION
- AIDS
- Global Link - a connection to information and resources illustrating the international dimensions
of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
- UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
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HIV/AIDS: The Global Epidemic
Provided by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization, it provides estimates as of December 1996 for new infections in 1996, people living with HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS-associated deaths in 1996, and cumulative AIDS information. It also contains a geographic table of AIDS-related information. It is connected to a much larger study, "The Status and Trends of the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic" the result of a symposium held in July 1996 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Center for International Health Information (CIHI) --- a USAID information
management activity
- HEALTH JOURNALS (Fulltext of Current Issue)
- NUTRITION
- The Journal of Nutrition
Published by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences. See current issues, search archive, and get information about forthcoming articles.
- PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (PAHO) - Country Profiles for all member countries as well as pointers to many health sites in Latin America.
- POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING RESOURCES
- CIA World Factbook - has country information tables.
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The Demographic and Health Surveys by Macro International under contract to US AID, contain data sheets for all completed surveys.
Sectoral Library receives copies of all completed DHS publications.
(Search tip : To locate DHS material on
JOLIS catalog enter "country name and DHS" in theGeneral search field)
- Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs - information on its major programs including POPLINE. (POPLINE is available on CD-ROM at Sectoral Library).
- Population Action International (PAI) is dedicated to advancing policies and programs that slow population growth in order to enhance the quality of life for all people.
- Population Index produced by Princeton University's Office of Population Research covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth,
migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations.
United Nations Population Fund
- US GOVERNMENT
- US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Bibliographic Sites
- WHO Library Search their catalog using an interface like the one we use for JOLIS catalog. At this same site is a feature called WHO Library Essential Lists. Here they are compiling annotated bibliographies on key health topics.
- WHO Publications - detailed descriptions of major publications. Sectoral Library which has a standing order for all items on the WHO official publications series and all WHO journals.Data and Statistics
- WHOSIS - data for direct screen display (Malaria tables, EPI tables) and data available for downloading ( Global Health for All ) and some data with both options (Global Health Situation and Projections, Weekly Epidemiological Record). Also at this site are hotlinks to major WHO programmes.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
STATISTICAL DATABASES
STOCK MARKETS
Stock Exchangesin Asia - Links to Asian stock exchanges by country
Athens Stock Exchange
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (Mexican Stock Exchange)
Center for Latin American Capital Markets: Exchanges and Quotes
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
International Federation of Stock Exchanges
International Stock Market Links (via Nasdaq)
Investcom - Canadian stock exchange information
Nat'l Stock Exchange of India
(NSE)
Nasdaq US
Nasdaq UK
Indonesia NET Exchange -Real-time Stocks & News (free, but requires registration)
Montreal Exchange
NYSE Home Page
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd
Telenium - Toronto Stock Exchange
Thailand Stock Exchange (SET)
Yahoo! -
Stock Exchange Links
Quote.com - stock quotes, business
news, market data.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TRANSPORTATION
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics - BTS
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) responds to queries from the Congress, other public agencies, private industry, and the general public.
- California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) -administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Caltrans.
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PATH Database : covers all aspects of ITS, from historical materials dating back to the 1940s to topics of current interest. Currently containing over 9000 records with abstracts, the database reflects a wide coverage of ITS information including monographs, journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, theses and selected media coverage.
- European Conference of Ministers of Transport Other Transport Web Sites - Links to many international transport sites.
- Federal Aviation Administration - FAA
- Transport Research Laboratory - one of the largest and most comprehensive independent centres for the study of road transport in the world.
- Transportation Research Board - is a unit of the National Research Council that helps disseminates information produced by the research , and encourages the application of appropriate research findings.
- Transportation Resources - Highway, Transit, and Rail Systems, Airports and Airlines, Organizations, Directories and more...around the world.
- Transportation Resource Directory - List of links to various resources; ie: education, environment, land use, technology, transportation, urban design, etc.
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World Bank Transport Sector
- WWW Virtual Library - Transportation
URBAN PLANNING
WATER RESOURCES
- American Water Works Association
- AWWA is an international nonprofit scientific and educational society dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply.
- National Drought Mitigation Center Drought-Related Links - Drought-related links are grouped into the following themes: Climate and Weather, Government, State, International, Disaster, Sustainability, Remote Sensing, Hydrology and Water Conservation.
- UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program
- Universities Water Information Network -
UWIN maintains many information services of interest to managers, researchers, consultants, and teachers throughout the water resources community.
- At this site: USGS Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) Research Abstracts covers time period from 1967 to October, 1993. Database contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations. Search the database
Please note : Sectoral Library has Water Resources CD-ROM (1967-April 1998) available for use in the Library, OR Request a search for more recent references.
- Water Environment Federation Web Page
- interactive electronic resource designed to provide pertinent and comprehensive information on water quality and environmental issues.
- WaterOnline - Focuses on the commercial water and wastewater industry. Site is a source for product, technology, regulatory, and management information for the industry.
- World Bank Water and Sanitation Sector
- WHYCOS - World Hydrological Cycle Observing System:
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the World Bank, began in 1993 to promote a World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS), based on a global network of reference stations.
U.S. GOVERNMENT
U.S. AID (US Agency for Int'l Development).
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Census Bureau
C.I.A. - includes the World Factbook and the Factbook on Intelligence.
Commerce Department
Ex-Im Bank of the U.S.
Federal Reserve System of the U.S.
FedWorld Information Network - U.S. gov't gateway to more than 130 online systems, including joblists.
GAO - information and full-text reports.
GPO Access
OPIC-Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Securities & Exchange Commission
USGS Minerals Information
Stat-USA - U.S. Gov't statistical sources.
Thomas - U.S. Legislative Information
Treasury Department
USDA Home Page.
U.S. Information Agency - This site contains historical information on the USIA, which was integrated into the Dept of State effective Oct 1999.
U.S. Senate
White House and Related Agencies
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