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International organizations
www.bis.org
Bank for International Settlements (BIS): "the central banks' central bank": international banking statistics; data on indebtedness.
www.financialstabilityboard.org
The Financial Stability Board was established to coordinate at the international level the work of national financial authorities and international standard setting bodies and to develop and promote the implementation of effective regulatory, supervisory and other financial sector policies.
www.bis.org/bcbs/
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is the primary global standard setter for the prudential regulation of banks
www.ilo.org
International Labour Organization
www.imf.org
International Monetary Fund (IMF): data on debt, balance of payments, international reserves; analysis of structural adjustment programs; staff working papers are online as are the Fund's fortnightly newsletter, IMF Survey and its biannual World Economic Outlook.
www.unctad.org
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): Trade and Development issues; annual comprehensive survey of Foreign Direct Investment trends.
www.undp.org
United National Development Programme (UNDP)
www.unep.org
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
www.unido.org
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) focuses on providing solutions for the sustainable industrial development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Some useful industrial statistics are accessible online.
www.worldbank.org
World Bank: data on development; major reports (including annual World Development Report) and staff working papers are available online.
www.wipo.org
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of intellectual property. It is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.
www.wto.org
World Trade Organization (WTO): data on trade, impediments to trade, dispute settlement mechanisms & panel reports.
For other organizations see the links at:
www.lawresearch.com/v2/Ciorgs.htm
and at:
www.etown.edu/vl/
For an alphabetic index of websites of the United Nations system of organizations, see:
www.unsystem.org/
Regional organizations, free trade agreements and bilaterals
www.apec.org
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping (APEC): Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Vietnam.
asean.org/
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
aseanregionalforum.asean.org/
ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF): Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Canada, China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russian Federation, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, United States, Vietnam.
www.comunidadandina.org
Andean Community (CAN): Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.
www.caricom.org
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM): Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Monserrat, Trinidad & Tabago, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Surinam.
http://www.sice.oas.org/
Central American Common Market (CACM): Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/fta/anzcerta/index.html
Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement
http://mfat.govt.nz/Trade-and-Economic-Relations/2-Trade-Relationships-and-Agreements/Australia/index.php
Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER): Australia and New Zealand.
www.cis.minsk.by
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyrz Republic.
www.comesa.int
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Angola, Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
www.ecosecretariat.org
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO): Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
www.efta.int
European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland.
europa.eu
European Union (EU)
www.ftaa-alca.org
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA): consist of 34 member countries.
www.gcc-sg.org
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.
www.oas.org
Organisation of American States (OAS)
unctad.org/en/Pages/GDS/Economic%20Cooperation%20and%20Integration%20among%20Developing%20Countries/Economic-Cooperation-and-Integration-among-Developing-Countries-Briefing-Notes.aspx
Global System of Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries (GSTP): membership includes over 40 countries.
www.aladi.org
Latin American Integration Association (LAIA): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
www.mercosur.org.uy
Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay.
www.nafta-sec-alena.org
North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA): Canada, Mexico, United States.
www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1982/31.html
South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement (SPARTECA): Australia, Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Western Samoa.
www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/region_e/region_e.htm
For the WTO's gateway to material on regional trade agreements.
Other inter-governmental associations
www.thecommonwealth.org
The Commonwealth is an association of 53 countries who share a common history in the British Empire.
www.g8.utoronto.ca
G7/G8 – a group of major industrial democracies that meet regularly to deal with major economic and political issues facing their domestic societies and the international community.
www.g20.org
The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialised and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy.
www.g77.org
The Group of 77 (G-77) is the largest Third World coalition in the United Nations. The coalition provides the means for the developing world to articulate and promote its collective economic interests and enhance its joint negotiating capacity on all major international economic issues in the United Nations system, as well as promote economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.
www.nam.gov.za
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
www.oecd.org
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): data on development aid, foreign investment, economies of member states. Staff working papers and other reports online.
www.southcentre.org
The South Centre is an intergovernmental body of developing countries intended to meet the need for analysis of development problems and experience, as well as to provide intellectual and policy support required by developing countries for collective and individual action in the international arena.
www.afdb.org
African Development Bank
www.adb.org
Asian Development Bank
www.aiib.org/
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
www.ebrd.com
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
www.iadb.org
Inter-American Development Bank Group
www.isdb.org
Islamic Development Bank
go.worldbank.org/F3REECOMB1
The World Bank's page on multilateral development banks
www.opec.org
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Other useful governmental/international agencies/organizations
www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
WTO's International Trade Statistics provides comprehensive, comparable and up-to-date statistics on trade in merchandise and commercial services for an assessment of world trade flows by country, region and main product groups or service categories.
http://unctad.org/en/pages/DIAE/World%20Investment%20Report/WIR-Series.aspx
The World Investment Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development.
www.wider.unu.edu/research/Database/en_GB/database/
The UNU/WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.
www.ustr.gov
United States Trade Representative (USTR)
www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
www.federalreserve.gov
US Federal Reserve Board
www.bankofengland.co.uk
Bank of England
www.ecb.int
European Union Central Bank
www.boj.or.jp/en/
Bank of Japan
aric.adb.org/index.php
Asia Regional Information Center: a knowledge and information portal on regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific.
Think tanks and research centres
www.brookings.edu
The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions.
http://www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk/
Brooks World Poverty Institute is an international centre established to create and share knowledge to end poverty.
www.cato.org
The Cato Institute was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane. It is a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C.
www.cgdev.org
Centre for Global Development is an independent, non-profit policy research organization that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through a combination of research and strategic outreach.
www.chathamhouse.org.uk
Chatham House, officially known as The Royal Institute of International Affairs, is one of the world's leading organizations for the analysis of international issues.
www.cfr.org
The US Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan and independent membership organization that holds a variety of meetings at which world leaders, government officials, academics, and other foreign-policy specialists discuss and debate world affairs. The Council is also home to a highly regarded think tank, whose fellows conduct research on international subjects ranging from national security to children's education.
thecic.org/
The Canadian International Council (CIC) is a non-partisan foreign policy council established to strengthen Canada's foreign policy. It promotes research and dialogue on international affairs issues through a national network that crosses academic disciplines, policy areas and economic sectors.
http://www4.carleton.ca/cifp/
The Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world. The cross-national data generated through CIFP was intended to have a variety of applications in government departments, NGOs, and by users in the private sector. The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures.
www.gdnet.org
The Global Development Network is an international organization of developing and transition country researchers and policy and research institutes dedicated to the generation, sharing and application of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development.
www.globaleconomicgovernance.org
The Global Economic Governance Programme was established at University College, Oxford in 2003 to foster research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries.
www.nber.org
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
https://piie.com/
The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy.
pewglobal.org/
The Pew Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day.
http://www.twn.my/twnintro.htm
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
NGOs and non-governmental institutions/organizations
www.brettonwoodsproject.org
The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant and watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
www.brettonwoods.org
The Bretton Woods Committee is a bipartisan group of distinguished citizens dedicated to increasing understanding of the vital role the international financial institutions play in promoting growth and stability for the U.S. and global economy.
www.weforum.org
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. The Forum is under the supervision of the Swiss Federal Government.
www.transparency.org
Transparency International (TI) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to combating corruption. Through its International Secretariat in Berlin and its 99 independent National Chapters around the world, TI works at both the international and national level to curb the supply and demand of corrupt practices.
www.pipa.org
The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) studies public opinion on international issues.
www.eurodad.org
Eurodad, the European Network on Debt and Development, is a leading non-governmental organization based in Europe that addresses international financial issues relating to poorer countries.
www.iif.com
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) is the world's only global association of financial institutions. Members include most of the world's largest commercial banks and investment banks, as well as a growing number of insurance companies and investment management firms.
www.globalpolicy.org
Global Policy Forum's mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations, promote accountability of global decisions, educate and mobilize for global citizen participation, and advocate on vital issues of international peace and justice.
www.ictsd.org
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) seeks to contribute to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade. ;
www.citizen.org/trade/
Public Citizens' Global Trade Watch provides a gateway to resources on trade politics.
www.oneworld.net
One World Action: Information on action to attain the Sustainable Development Goals
http://focusweb.org/
Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action with three offices in Bangkok, Mumbai, and Manila.
http://www.seatiniuganda.org/
The Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) is an African initiative to strengthen Africa's capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of Globalization. It deals specifically with issues and debates around the World Trade Organization and Africa's relationships to it.
www.consumersinternational.org
Consumers International (CI) supports, links and represents consumer groups and agencies all over the world.
www.polity.co.uk/global
Good site for the globalization debate with links
www.ifg.org
The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is a North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analysis and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization.
Information portals
www.eldis.org
ELDIS is a gateway to information on development issues, providing free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources.
www.isn.ethz.ch
The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is a free public service that provides a wide range of high-quality and comprehensive products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide.
www.choike.org
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South.
bilaterals.org
This is a portal with information on bilateral trade and investment agreements.
Journals, bulletins
muse.jhu.edu/journals/asean_economic_bulletin/
ASEAN Economic Bulletin
http://www.brill.com/asian-journal-social-science
Asian Journal of Social Science
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/caji20/current
Australian Journal of International Affairs
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bap
Business and Politics
http://jcp.gc.cuny.edu/
Comparative Politics
muse.jhu.edu/journals/csa/
Contemporary Southeast Asia
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ev
The Economists’ Voice
www.foreignaffairs.org
Foreign Affairs
www.foreignpolicy.com
Foreign Policy
https://www.rienner.com/title/Global_Governance_A_Review_of_Multilateralism_and_International_Organizations
Global Governance
www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/ia/
International Affairs
www.ia-forum.org
International Affairs Forum, a publication of the Center for International Relations, presents all-partisan, global perspectives on today's most important issues in International Affairs, Economics, and Intelligence.
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=INO
International Organization
http://isq.oxfordjournals.org/
International Studies Quarterly
jia.sipa.columbia.edu/
Journal of International Affairs
http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?area=Journals&mode=bypub&level=4&values=Journals~~Journal+of+World+Trade
Journal of World Trade
www.newleftreview.org/
New Left Review
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cnpe20/current
New Political Economy
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpre20/current
Pacific Review
www.psqonline.org
Political Science Quarterly
www.roie.org
Review of International Economics
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrip20/current
Review of International Political Economy
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9701
The World Economy
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/current
Third World Quarterly
www.elsevier.com/locate/worlddev
World Development
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=WPO
World Politics
Magazines/Newspapers
www.economist.com
Economist
www.eiu.com
Economist Intelligence Unit
www.ft.com
Financial Times
www.nytimes.com
The New York Times
www.wsj.com
Wall Street Journal
www.newspapers.com
www.onlinenewspapers.com
These sites contain lists of international newspapers (including links to all papers listed)
Environment
www.unep.org
United Nations Environment Programme
www.thegef.org
Global Environment Facility outlines projects and programmes to finance protection of the global environment in developing countries.
www.wri.org
World Resources Institute is a source of scientific environment research and non-governmental policy proposals.
www.iisd.org
International Institute for Sustainable Development monitors the proceedings of global environmental negotiations and conferences.
www.worldwatch-europe.org/
WorldWatch Institute is a source of data on the global environmental ‘crisis’. It challenges some of the data and interpretations of the United Nations, World Bank and governments.
Subject-specific sites and other useful data
www.amosweb.com/cgi-bin/awb_nav.pl?s=gls
Glossary of Economic Terms
www.anz.com/edna/dictionary.asp
An online financial dictionary
gametheory.net/
A resource for educators and students of game theory
eh.net/encyclopedia/
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen/inpress/bretton.html
Bretton Woods System by Benjamin Cohen, prepared for the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
www.actionaid.org/
The WTO made easy
www.internationalecon.com
International Economics Study Center
www.paulhensel.org/data.html
Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
Country profiles compiled by the BBC
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/index.html
CIA World Factbook
utip.gov.utexas.edu/
University of Texas Inequality Project
https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/articles_papers_reports/819.html/:pf_printable
Monitoring global poverty
www.bristol.ac.uk/poverty/
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research