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8)- International data
The following is a list of the most important sources of international data. Most of this data is highly aggregated and often not very recent, but it can be useful for long term trend analysis. Data sources for individual countries would be preferable, but what is available ranges from excellent to dismal depending on the country involved.
- United Nations' National Accounts
present statistics for all countries of the world which are available
from UN itself; in addition, affiliated organizations (ILO, UNDP,
UNESCO, WHO) also have much useful data. Visit http://www.un.org/
- World Bank's World Tables are best
for concise economic data easily compared across countries (not
available on-line). A summary Country-at-a-glance is even more
condensed (but on line). Development Indicators and some other
development related data is also provided by the World Bank. Visit
http://www.worldbank.org/
- OECD has very complete economic
data for member countries, as well as some statistics for developing
countries at http://www.oecd.org/.
- International Monetary Fund has international trade data at
http://www.imf.org/.
- IFC (International Finance Corporation, part of World Bank)
provides Emerging Markets data at http://www.ifc.org/.
- Inter-American Development Bank offers data in its Integration
and Regional Programs Department.
- Asian Development Bank has Economic and Social Statistics at
http://www.adb.org/.
- Eurostats has, as of 2001, still only somewhat sketchy data
for EC member countries at http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/.
- Ministry of Economics of each country.
- Most overseas exchanges have web sites and publish data.
- Many commercial banks make available a number of free financial
publications with foreign data.
- For general, legal, governmental and economic summaries for
all major nations and even small developing countries one can
rely on very useful and up-to-date pamphlets published by each
of the major accounting firms.
- A web site maintained by Euromoney, which periodically provides investment related intelligence for a large number of countries (but is somewhat expensive) is http://www.securities.com/
See review question Q-1D8.1
See research assignment R-1D8.1.
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