Chapter 4 Web links to sources of data
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
http://unctadstat.unctad.org/EN/
UNCTADstat provides useful statistics and economic indicators that are relevant to international trade and foreign direct investment. It offers analytical groupings for countries and types of information, so that data can be consistently compared among different sets of data.
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
http://stat.wto.org/Home/WSDBHome.aspx?Language
WTO Statistics database provides statistical information on trade and tariff profiles of WTO members and other selected economies. It also provides time series of international trade data.
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx
OECD.Stat provides data for OECD countries and some selected non-member countries. This website provides a range of data including both economic indicators and social information.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
IMF Data provides a variety of time series data on economic and financial indicators, exchange rate, and IMF lending.
- The World Bank
http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
The World Bank’s DataBank provides different sets of time series data on different topics including World Development Indicators and Statistical Capacity Indicators (information on national statistical system of developing countries).
- EUROSTAT
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
EUROSTAT Database includes statistical information of European countries.